Yang Hak-seon
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Medal record
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Hangul | 양학선 |
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Hanja | 梁鶴善 |
Revised Romanization | Yang Hak-seon |
McCune–Reischauer | Yang Hak-sŏn |
Yang Hak-seon (Korean: 양학선; Hanja: 梁鶴善 ; born 6 December 1992) is a South Korean artistic gymnast who specialises in the vault. He is the first South Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal.
Personal life
According to his Olympic profile, Yang started his gymnastics career at the age of 9, following his brother's footsteps.[1]
Yang is currently attending the Korea National Sport University.[2]
Yang's parents are Yang Gwan-gwon and Ki Suk-hyang.
Yang also competed on the Korean survivor game show Physical: 100 by Netflix in 2023.
Career
Yang placed fourth and just missed medaling in the individual vault final at the
Yang was a reigning world champion, having won gold in vault at both the
, Yang had "qualified" (Q) in first place for the vault event final but pulled out after that because he had sustained a hamstring injury during qualifications.At the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Yang had qualified for the individual vault event final in first place, but finished eighth after falling out of the first vault—his own the Yang Hak Seon on vault, or front handspring (layout) triple twist—as well as incurring a 0.300 penalty for stepping out-of-bounds because of that.
Yang's training and preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, were adjusted for his performance to peak accordingly for one year due to 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic. At the Olympics, he failed to qualify automatically for the individual event finals on vault after placing ninth in qualifying due to the poor execution and penalty point received in his second vault. He became the first reserve for the finals but ending up not competing.
In the 2021 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, Yang qualified for the individual vault apparatus finals in a tie for the highest average combined score of 14.833 with but ranked second to Nazar Chepurnyi of Ukraine after the tie-breaking procedure was applied. However, Yang completed the event in fifth place after some weak execution on his second vault once again.
Competitive history
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2010 | |||||||||
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships | 4 | ||||||||
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2011 | |||||||||
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2012 | |||||||||
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2013 | Summer Universiade | ||||||||
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships | — | ||||||||
2014 | |||||||||
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships | 7 | ||||||||
Asian Games | |||||||||
2015 | Summer Universiade | ||||||||
2017 | |||||||||
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships | — | Q | |||||||
2019 | |||||||||
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships | 8 | ||||||||
2021 | |||||||||
Summer Olympic Games | 9 | ||||||||
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships | — | 5 |
Eponymous skills
Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Notes |
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Vault | Yang Hak Seon | front handspring layout triple twist | 6.0 | Originated in the vault finals at the 2011 Worlds as men's hardest vault at the time. It had a D-score of 7.4 in 2009–2012, 6.4 in 2013–2016, and 6.0 from 2017 on. |
References
- ^ "Hak Seon Yang". Athlete overviews. London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ Nate News (in Korean). Nate. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ a b c Kang Seung-woo (August 7, 2010). "Korean gymnast rises from poverty". The Korea Times. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ a b Kwon, KJ; Alexis Lai. "Gymnastics Olympics 2012: Yang Hak-seon, South Korean gold gymnast, vaults from rags to riches". CNN. Archived from the original on 2012-08-12. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ Sport Chosun (October 6, 2013). "'도마의신'양학선 세계체조선수권 2연패,적수 없었다(in Korean)". Naver.
- ^ S (October 6, 2013). "Exciting showdown at Tokyo Worlds". Tokyo2011.fig-gymnastics.com.
- ^ S (October 6, 2013). "South Korea's Yang wins men's vault title at gymnastics worlds". Nampa.org.