1. Yang Hak-seon is a South Korean artistic gymnast who specialises in the vault.
12 Facts About Yang Hak-seon
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Yang Hak-seon is the first South Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal.
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Yang Hak-seon competed on the Korean survivor game show Physical: 100 by Netflix in 2023.
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Yang Hak-seon placed fourth and just missed medaling in the individual vault final at the 2010 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and would later become vault champion at the 2010 Asian Games and then 2011 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
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Yang Hak-seon is famous in the gymnastics world for performing one of the five hardest vaults in the world, the Yang Hak Seon, which is a front handspring on and into three twists off in a layout position.
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Yang Hak-seon is said to be working on a difficult second vault but with a sideways entry.
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Yang Hak-seon was a reigning world champion, having won gold in vault at both the 2011 Worlds and 2013 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Tokyo and Antwerp respectively.
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Yang Hak-seon had earlier submitted to possibly attempt this new vault at the 2013 Worlds as well but chose not to compete it in any stage of the individual vault apparatus event.
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Yang Hak-seon was similarly unable to defend his Olympic title at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro due to injury.
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At the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal, Canada, Yang Hak-seon had "qualified" in first place for the vault event final but pulled out after that because he had sustained a hamstring injury during qualifications.
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Yang Hak-seon became the first reserve for the finals but ending up not competing.
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However, Yang Hak-seon completed the event in fifth place after some weak execution on his second vault .