Yoo Hyun-young (badminton)

Yoo Hyun-young
Personal information
CountrySouth Korea
Born (1990-01-03) 3 January 1990
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
HandednessRight
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking21 (WD 22 July 2010)
19 (XD 29 July 2010)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  South Korea
Asian Games
2010 GuangzhouWomen's team
East Asian Games
2009 Hong KongWomen's team
World Junior Championships
2006 IncheonMixed doubles
2006 IncheonMixed team
2007 Waitakere CityGirls' doubles
2007 Waitakere CityMixed team
2007 Waitakere CityMixed doubles
Asia Junior Championships
2006 Kuala LumpurMixed doubles
2006 Kuala LumpurMixed team
2006 Kuala LumpurGirls' doubles
2007 Kuala LumpurMixed doubles
2005 JakartaGirls' team
2007 Kuala LumpurGirls' doubles
BWF profile

Yoo Hyun-young (Korean: 유현영; Hanja: 柳晛榮; born 3 January 1990) is a badminton player from South Korea. Her first big result internationally came when, at the age of 16, she partnered Lee Yong-dae to win the mixed doubles title at the 2006 BWF World Junior Championships, as well as the mixed team title. She was a team-mate of both Bae Yeon-ju and Jung Kyung-eun at Masan's Sungji Girls' High School and in 2007, all three girls were runners-up at the 2007 BWF World Junior Championships.

After graduating to the senior ranks, Yoo continued to play with both Jung and Shin Baek-cheol, her partner in her last year of junior play. She and Shin were mixed doubles runners-up at the 2010 Swiss Open Super Series. Later that year, she and Jung won their first Grand Prix title, the Korea Grand Prix. However, shortly afterward, both pairings were split up.

Yoo, Bae Yeon-ju, Jung Kyung-eun, and Bae Seung-hee, among others, were coached by Yoo's father Yoo Gap-soo both at Sungji Girls' High School and later at Korea Ginseng Corporation.