Kang Sang-hyun

Kang Sang-hyun (born 1 September 2002) is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner. He has competed as a middleweight and heavyweight and is a two-time medalist, including gold, at the World Taekwondo Championships.

Career In May 2023, Kang won the gold medal in the men's middleweight event at the World Championships in Baku after defeating Croatian Ivan Šapina in the final. It was South Korea's first World Championship middleweight gold in 15 years since Oh Seon-taek won gold at the 2005 World Championships in Madrid. In October 2023, he won the bronze medal in the +80 kg class at the Grand Prix in Taiyuan.

In 2025, Kang represented South Korea at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine–Ruhr, Germany, where he won the gold medal in the men's +87 kg event, defeating Marat Mavlonov (Uzbekistan) in the final. He also won the gold medal in the Team Kyorugi event. He won the gold medal in the men's heavyweight event at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships held in Wuxi, China.