page_title: You Young
section_title: 2017–2018 season: Junior international debut
hierarchical_section_title: You Young / Career / 2017–2018 season: Junior international debut
caption_attribution_description: English: Photos – Junior World Championships 2018 – Ladies (Young YOU KOR – 9th Place)
context_page_description: You Young is a South Korean figure skater competing in the ladies' singles event. She is the 2020 Youth Olympic champion, the 2020 Four Continents silver medalist, and a four-time South Korean national champion. She became the youngest ever national champion of South Korea at age 11, surpassing the previous record set by Yuna Kim who won at age 12 in 2003. She is also the first Korean lady to successfully land a triple Axel in international competition, and the first Korean lady to win the gold medal at the Winter Youth Olympics.
  Previously, on the junior level, You won a bronze medal at the 2018 JGP Slovakia and twice finished within the top ten at the World Junior Championships.
  You is the eleventh woman to successfully land a triple Axel jump in international competition. Along with four other female skaters, she made history with the triple Axel at several competitions during the 2019–20 season. At the 2019 Skate Canada, she became the third woman internationally to land four triple jumps in a short program – the maximum allowed under the Zayak rule – after Japan's Rika Kihira and Russia's Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.
context_section_description: You debuted on the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in September 2018, placing fourth at JGP Croatia in Zagreb. In October, she placed fifth at JGP Italy in Egna.
  In January 2018, she won the gold medal at the 2018 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, earning her second national title.
  In March, You finished ninth at the 2018 World Junior Championships.
caption: You at the 2018 World Junior Championships
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