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| Nationality | Korean | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1991-09-26) 26 September 1991 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80.51 kg (177.5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Kim Woo-jae (Korean: 김우재; born 26 September 1991) is a South Korean weightlifter competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. He won the bronze medal in the men's 81 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.
Career
He won the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games in the 77 kg division.
Major results
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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Representing  South Korea
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| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2015 |  Houston, United States |
77 kg | 147 | 151 | 155 | 10 | 181 | 24 | 336 | 15 | ||
| 2017 | Anaheim, United States |
77 kg | 154 | 6 | 185 | 192 | 6 | 346 | 4 | |||
| 2018 |  Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
81 kg | 156 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | |||||
| 2022 |  Bogotá, Colombia
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81 kg | 155 | 162 | 
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190 | 195 | 5 | 357 |
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| 2018 |  Jakarta, Indonesia |
77 kg | 155 | 160 | 1 | 187 | 2 | 347 | 
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References
- "Kim Woo-jae". iwf.net. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- PDF listing of 2018 Group B world championship entrants in 81 kg
- Oliver, Brian (11 December 2022). "Teenager Nasar gets world record after bomb-out at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- "Asian Games 2018 77kg division". asiangames2018.id. Archived from the original on August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- AFP. "No ordinary Choe: North Korean makes epic lift to win gold". MSN. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
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- 1991 births
- Living people
- South Korean male weightlifters
- Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
- Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
- Weightlifters at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 21st-century South Korean sportsmen
- South Korean weightlifting biography stubs