Woo Seung-jae

Korean spelling
Hangeul	우승 재
Revised Romanization	U Seung-jae
McCune- Reischauer	U Sŭngjae
See also : Korean name

Woo Seung-jae (born July 26, 1986 ) is a South Korean wrestler . He won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman style featherweight at the 2013 World Championships .

Career

Woo Seung-jae prefers the Greco-Roman style. He wrestles at featherweight and only played for South Korea at an international championship at the age of 24. His toughest competitor in South Korea is Jung Ji-hyun , whom he rarely got past.

His first start in an international championship was participation in the 2010 Asian Cup in New Delhi . He came in second behind the Chinese Shen Jiang . At the Asian Championships 2011 in Tashkent, he reached only 7th place in featherweight. Woo Seung-jae won a bronze medal at the 2012 Asian Championships in Gumi / South Korea. In the South Korean qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he failed to Jung Ji-hyun.

In September 2013 it was used for the first time at a world championship. In Budapest he fought for a bronze medal with victories over Kamran Mammadow , Azerbaijan, Tobias Fonnesbek, Denmark and Jesse David Thielke, United States, a defeat against Iwo Angelow , Bulgaria and a victory over Edward Barsegjan from Poland.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2010	2.	Asian Championship in New Delhi	feather	behind Shen Jiang, China, in front of Sanjarbek Schumaschew, Uzbekistan and Ravinder Singh, India
2011	7th	Asian Cup 2011 in Tashkent	feather	Winner: Almat Kebispajew , Kazakhstan ahead of Bhariya Anil Kumar, India
2011	3.	FILA test tournament in London	feather	behind Aslan Abdullin, Russia and Tarik Belmadani, France
2012	3.	Asian Championship in Gumi / South Korea	feather	behind Yerbol Koniratow, Kazakhstan and Kazuma Kuramoto, Japan
2012	5.	World Cup in Saransk	feather	behind Omid Haji Noroozi , Iran, Artur Mkrtchjan, Armenia, Sakit Jalilow, Azerbaijan and Almat Kebispajew
2012	1.	Presidents Cup of Kazakhstan in Astana	feather	in front of Almat Kebispajew, Elmurat Tasmuradow, Uzbekistan and Yerbol Koniratow
2013	3.	World Cup in Budapest	feather	after victories over Kamran Mammadow, Azerbaijan, Tobias Fonnesbek, Denmark and Jesse David Thielke, USA, a defeat against Iwo Angelow, Bulgaria and a victory over Edward Barsegjan, Poland

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• WM = World Championship
• Feather weight, weight class up to 60 kg body weight (until December 31, 2013; since January 1, 2014, a new weight class division has been in effect by the world wrestling association FILA)

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Woo Seung-jae at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Fight of Woo Seung-jae (blue) against Edward Barsegjan at the 2013 World Cup

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Woo is the family name here, Seung-jae is the first name.