KANG Yeounhee

World Championships

Year	Location	75kg - Total	75kg - Snatch	75kg - C&J	76kg - Total	76kg - Snatch	76kg - C&J
2019	Pattaya, THA	-	-	-	6th (235)	7th (104)	6th (131)
2015	Houston, TX, USA	11th (233)	16th (102)	10th (131)	-	-	-

Asian Championships

Year	Location	76kg - Total	76kg - Snatch	76kg - C&J	81kg - Total	81kg - Snatch	81kg - C&J
2020	Tashkent, UZB	5th (220)	3rd (100)	5th (120)	-	-	-
2019	Ningbo, CHN	-	-	-	1st (220)	2nd (97)	1st (123)

Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified

Athlete

Korean

Gyeongsangnam-do Government [Republic of Korea]

Kim Soon-Hee [club], KOR; Jeon Sang-Seok [national], KOR

In July 2020 she had surgery on her left shoulder and required four months of rehabilitation. She resumed training in January 2021. (Instagram profile, 30 Mar 2021, 28 Apr 2021, 13 Apr 2020)

In 2019 she underwent surgery on her knee. (E channel Sporty Sister, 17 Nov 2020)

She sustained an injury to her elbow during training in August 2010. (kyongbuk.co.kr, 07 Oct 2010)

She began weightlifting in 2005. (kbmaeil.com, 22 Mar 2006)

She was competing in shot put, but a physical education teacher from middle school encouraged her to switch to weightlifting. (kbmaeil.com, 22 Mar 2006; kyongbuk.co.kr, 07 Oct 2010)

Her father. (Instagram profile, 10 Jun 2021)

In 2014 she was presented with the Best Weightlifter Award by the Gyeongsangnam-do Weightlifting Federation in Republic of Korea. (knnews.co.kr, 07 Feb 2014)