Kong Sang-jeong

Kong Sang-jeong
nation	South Korea
birthday	June 22, 1996
place of birth	Chuncheon , Gangwon-do ,  South Korea
size	161 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 4 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi 3000 m relay  Short track junior world championships gold 2013 Warsaw 3000 m relay gold 2015 Osaka All-around gold 2015 Osaka 1500 m gold 2015 Osaka 3000 m relay silver 2015 Osaka 1000 m silver 2015 Osaka 1500 m superfinal
last change: August 2nd, 2015

Kong Sang-jeong ( Korean 공상 정 Hanja 孔尚貞 ; born June 22, 1996 in Chuncheon , Gangwon-do ) is a South Korean short tracker .

Kong is of Chinese-Korean descent and is the third generation to live in South Korea . Kong's grandfather is originally from Taiwan . Since she has the citizenship of the Republic of China (Taiwan) , she could not participate for South Korea in the Short Track Junior World Championship in Courmayeur in 2011 . After the revision of the citizenship law of South Korea in 2011, she was able to take on dual citizenship in December 2011. Kong won the gold medal with the South Korean relay at the 2013 Junior World Championships in Warsaw . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won a gold medal with the relay over 3000 m.

Web links

• Kong Sang-jeong in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ '쇼트 트랙 신성' 공상 정, 주니어 대표 선발전 중간 합계 1 위 OhmyNews
2. ↑ Profile on sochi2014.com

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kong is the family name here, Sang-jeong is the first name.