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Woo Jin-yong (Korean: 우진용, born 1986) is a CrossFit and snowboard athlete, specialising in snowboard cross racing.
He was born in South Korea in 1986 and educated at Chung-Ang University where he gained a master's degree in physical education (PE).He worked as a PE teacher and served as a marine. Then, when studying English in Canada, he became an enthusiastic snowboarder and has pursued this as a career. He was the first to officially represent South Korea as a national snowboarding athlete at the International Ski Federation Freestyle Ski Cross World Cup. Then he served as a coach for South Korea's national snowboarding team.
In February 2023, he won the Physical: 100 reality competition series on Netflix, beating 99 other athletes in a variety of competitions.