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| Full name | Kwon Young-woo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 May 1983 Seoul, South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –81 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 7th (2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champ. | 7th (2007) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asian Champ. | 
(2007) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| IJF | 2260 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JudoInside.com | 13199 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Updated on 23 February 2022. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kwon Young-woo (also Kwon Yeong-u, Korean: 권 영우; born May 4, 1981, in Seoul) is a South Korean judoka, who competed in the men's middleweight category.[1] He captured two golds in the 81-kg division at the Summer Universiade (2001 and 2003), completed a full set of medals at the Asian Judo Championships, and later finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Kwon emerged as a frontrunner and a medal contender at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing, China, where he took home the gold in the 81-kg class against Azerbaijan's Mehman Azizov.[2][3] Two years later, Kwon defeated Spain's Óscar Fernández for an unprecedented second straight gold in his respective division.[4]
Kwon qualified for the South Korean squad in the men's half-middleweight class (81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third and receiving a berth from the Asian Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He thwarted France's Cédric Claverie and Cuba's Gabriel Arteaga in the prelims by a waza-ari and a yuko score, before being sanctioned with a penalty and falling short to Greek judoka and eventual Olympic champion Ilias Iliadis in a sudden-death quarterfinal match.[5] In the repechage round, Kwon ran off from his temporary falter with an effortless victory over Australia's Morgan Endicott-Davies, but fell short in a tremendous ippon to Brazilian judoka Flávio Canto within twenty-seven seconds, ending him in the seventh spot.[6][7]
