Hong Un-jong

Hong Un-jong
Personal information
Nationality:	North Korea
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Leap
Society:	Sports club Pyongyang
Trainer:	Jang Kwan Song
Birthday:	March 9, 1989
Place of birth:	Hamgyeong-do
Size:	155 cm
Weight:	43 kg
Medals
Olympic games gold 2008 Beijing Leap  World championships bronze 2013 Antwerp Leap gold 2014 Nanning Leap silver 2015 Glasgow Leap

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	홍은정
Hancha	洪恩貞
Revised Romanization	Hong Eun-jeong
McCune- Reischauer	Hong Ŭnjŏng
See also : Korean name

Hong Un-jong (born March 9, 1989 in Hamgyeong-do ) is a North Korean gymnast . At a height of 1.55 m, her competition weight is 43 kg.

Career

Hong Un-jong started gymnastics in 1996. Her twin sister Hong Su-jong is also a successful gymnast. Hong first appeared internationally at the 2006 World Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark . There she started in the all-around competition, on the balance beam, on the floor, in the team competition, on the uneven bars and in the jump, but could not qualify for any final and counted 16th place on the jump to her best placement. A year later she again took part in the World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart and took 23rd place in the all- around event. At the same time, Hong reached the device final on vault, where she missed a medal place behind the Chinese world champion Cheng Fei , her sister Hong Su-jong and the American Alicia Sacramone . In 2008 she finally achieved her first World Cup victory in Maribor , Slovenia , on her paragon , where she also took fourth place on the uneven bars. In the same year, Hong took part in the Summer Olympics in Beijing in the absence of her sister and qualified for the apparatus final on the vault. With jumps and a high degree of difficulty of 6.5 she surprisingly left the German Oksana Chusovitina and the favored Cheng Fei behind and won the gold medal. It was North Korea's second Olympic gymnastics victory since Pae Gil-su's pommel horse gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games .

Hong starts for the Pyongyang Sports Club and is currently coached by Kim Chun-phil.

Web links

• Hong Un-jong in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Hong Un-jong in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Xinhua : DPR Korean Hong Un Jong wins women's vault gold at chinadaily.com.cn, August 17, 2008 (accessed August 20, 2008)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hong is the family name here, Un-jong is the first name.