Yeo Seo-jeong Rewrites History of Korean Artistic Gymnastics... Valuable Bronze (Comprehensive)

Average Score 14.733... First Olympic Medal for Female Artistic Gymnast
Becomes South Korea's First Mother-Daughter Olympic Medalists

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Yeo Seo-jeong (19, Suwon City Hall) became the first South Korean female artistic gymnast to win an Olympic medal. On the 1st, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics women's vault final held at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, she scored 15.333 points in the first attempt and 14.133 points in the second attempt. With an average score of 14.733, she won the bronze medal behind Rebeca Andrade (Brazil, 15.083 points) and MyKayla Skinner (USA, 14.916 points).

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Yeo Seo-jeong is a gold medalist from the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games. After the 1986 Seoul Asian Games, she brought a gold medal to South Korean women's artistic gymnastics for the first time in 32 years, making her a medal contender in this competition. In her first attempt, she flawlessly performed the 'Yeo Seo-jeong (720-degree turn)' with a difficulty score of 6.2 registered under her name, meeting expectations. Adding an execution score of 9.133, she scored 15.333 points, making a gold medal within reach. However, in the second attempt, she received a somewhat low score of 14.133, which caused her to fall behind the two competitors in the average score.

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The bronze medal is no less a source of hope for South Korean artistic gymnastics. Until now, South Korean female gymnasts had never won an Olympic medal. Only male gymnasts had won nine medals. Since Park Jong-hoon, a professor at Catholic Kwandong University, won the bronze medal in vault at the 1988 Seoul Games, South Korea had earned one gold, four silver, and four bronze medals up to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. With Yeo Seo-jeong's success, the total number of medals increased to ten. Yeo Seo-jeong also made history as South Korea's first father-daughter Olympic medalists. Her father is Yeo Hong-chul, a professor at Kyung Hee University, who won a silver medal in men's vault at the 1996 Atlanta Games.

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