Kim Yu-jin

Career She won gold at the World Junior Taekwondo Championships in Burnaby, Canada, in 2016.

She won the gold medal in the 57 kg division at the 2019 Summer World University Games in Naples. She went on to retain her title in the 57 kg division at the 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu. Competing at the 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships she won the gold medal in the 57 kg category in Beirut.

She was a bronze medalist at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in September 2023, in the Women's 57 kg.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she defeated four of the top five athletes in her weight class and Iranian taekwondo artist Nahid Kiani, and won the gold medal for the women's 57 kg category for taekwondo. Kim's gold medal win also gave South Korea its 13th gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, tying the country's previous Summer Olympic gold medal records which were set in 2008 and 2012.