Hong Un-jong is the 2008 Olympic champion and 2014 World Champion on vault.
10 Facts About Hong Un-jong
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Hong Un-jong was the first North Korean female gymnast to win a medal at the Olympics.
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Hong Un-jong was an individual event finalist on the vault at the 2007 World Championships and the bronze medalist on the event at the 2006 Asian Games.
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Hong Un-jong won the gold medal in vault at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan and is the bronze medalist on vault at the 2013 World Championships.
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Hong Un-jong performed the two most difficult vaults in the final.
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In 2015 Hong Un-jong again represented North Korea at the World Championships held in Glasgow.
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Hong Un-jong was behind Russia's Maria Paseka by 0.033 point.
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Hong Un-jong Su-jong had three different birth dates listed for her at various competitions.
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In November 2010, Hong Un-jong Su-jong was permanently banned from all international competition as a consequence of providing inconsistent age information.
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Hong Un-jong has never been personally implicated in the age falsification, but the consequent country-wide ban meant that she could not defend her Olympic title on vault.