Ri Se-gwang (gymnast)

Ri Se-gwang
Personal information
Nationality:	North Korea
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Society:	4.25 sports club
Trainer:	Song Sun-bong
Birthday:	January 21, 1985
Place of birth:	Hamgyŏng-namdo
Size:	154 cm
Weight:	53 kg
Medals
Olympic games gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro Leap  World championships bronze 2007 Stuttgart Leap gold 2014 Nanning Leap gold 2015 Glasgow Leap gold 2018 Doha Leap  Asian Games gold 2006 Doha Leap

Korean spelling
Hangeul	리 세광
Revised Romanization	Ri Se-gwang
McCune- Reischauer	Ri Segwang
See also : Korean name

Ri Se-gwang (born January 21, 1985 in Hamgyŏng-namdo Province ) is a North Korean gymnast . His greatest successes so far are winning the gold medal in jumping at the 2014 World Gymnastics Championships in Nanning and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . This makes him the first North Korean world champion in apparatus gymnastics after 18 years and only the second after Pae Gil-su to ever succeed. He was able to defend his title at the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow .

Web links

• Ri Se-gwang in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.sportskeeda.com/gymnastics/north-koreas-ri-wins-mens-vault-gymnastics-worlds-final
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ri is the family name here, Se-gwang is the first name.