Yang Hak-seon

Yang Hak-seon
Yang Hak-seon 2012
Personal information
Nationality:	South Korea
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Leap
Society:	Korea National Sport University
Trainer:	Sung Dong Cho
Birthday:	December 6, 1992
Place of birth:	Seoul
Size:	160 cm
Weight:	52 kg
Medals
Olympic games gold London 2012 Leap  World championships gold 2011 Tokyo Leap gold 2013 Antwerp Leap  Asian Games gold 2010 Guangzhou Leap bronze 2010 Guangzhou team

Korean spelling
Hangeul	양학 선
Hanja	梁鶴善
Revised Romanization	Yang Hak-seon
McCune- Reischauer	Yang Haksŏn
See also : Korean name

Yang Hak-seon (born December 6, 1992 in Seoul ) is a South Korean apparatus gymnast . His greatest successes to date are winning the world championship title in jumping in 2011 and 2013 as well as the 2012 Olympic victory in the same discipline. With a height of 1.59 meters, his competition weight is 52 kilograms.

Life

Yang Hak-seon started gymnastics at the age of nine in elementary school and followed his brother to artistic gymnastics. In 2008 he was appointed to the South Korean national gymnastics team for seniors.

Yang first appeared internationally at the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam . With the South Korean gymnastics team, he took eighth place in the team competition and reached the apparatus final on the vault. There he just missed the bronze medal in the victory of the French Thomas Bouhail (16.449 points) with 16.266 and finished fourth. At the Asian Games held in Guangzhou a few weeks later , he won the final with 16,400 points and also won the bronze medal with the South Korean men's team.

In May 2011, Yang took second place in the jump at the World Cup in Moscow . The greatest success so far in his favorite discipline followed a few months later at the World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo . After finishing seventh in the team competition, the 18-year-old once again reached the device finals on the vault in sixth place in the preliminary fight. In the first round of the final, he showed a perfect rollover straight somersault with three screws, with the highest starting value of 7.4. With this jump, Yang had added a new technique with an additional half turn to the conventionally shown two and a half turns, which he had already demonstrated at the Posco Korea Cup in Goyang . In addition, he was rewarded by the judges with very good posture marks, with which he received a score of 16.866. Up until then, this was the highest mark ever awarded at a World Gymnastics Championships. After his second jump averaging 16,566 points, he won the world title ahead of the Russian Anton Golozuzkow (16.366) and the Japanese Makoto Okiguchi (16.291). Yang's new technique was later included in the rulebook under his name by the FIG International Gymnastics Federation . After Yeo Hong-cheol ("Yeo 1", 1993; "Yeo 2", 1994) he was the second South Korean after whom an official gymnastics technique was named.

At the Olympic Summer Games in London in 2012 , Yang reached the device finals after the preliminary battle with an average of 16.333 points for his two jumps, just behind the Russian Denis Ablyazin (16.366). He won the final in front of Abljasin with two jumps (degrees of difficulty: 7.4 and 7.0) and an average of 16.533 points. With this, Yang achieved the first ever Olympic victory for a South Korean apparatus gymnast. A year later, he managed to defend his title at the World Championships in Antwerp .

Yang Hak-seon lives in Seoul and is a student at Korea National Sports University . He is trained by former world-class gymnast Yang Tae-young . After Yang's success at the Olympic Games, it became known that Yang's family lived in poor conditions after they had moved from Gwangju to rural Gochang in 2010 to a makeshift greenhouse that had been converted with tents. The father, a former construction worker, was no longer able to go about his work after various injuries. Yang supported the family with his monthly sports allowance of 800,000 won (approx. 549 euros). After the fate of his family became known, the athlete was given great financial support in South Korea. The head of the LG Group , Koo Bon-moo , gave him 500 million won (approx. 343,000 euros) to pay off his family's financial worries and so that he could concentrate on his sports career. He received 100 million won (approx. 68,500 euros) from the chairman of the Korean Gymnastics Federation, and a construction company announced that the family would find a permanent home.

Web links

• Yang Hak-seon in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Profile ( memento from August 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at nbcolympics.com (English)
• Yang Hak-seon (jump)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} profile ( memento of July 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at london2012.com (accessed on August 6, 2012).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Yang Hak-seon in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English) (accessed on February 8, 2016).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Turner Yang Hak-seon impresses with new technology at rki.kbs.co.kr, July 11, 2011 (accessed on August 6, 2012).
4. ↑ Gymnastics Record jump brings South Korean Yang World Cup gold ( memento from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at news.de, October 16, 2011 (accessed on August 6, 2012).
5. ↑ Olympia - London: Jump gold for South Korean Yang Hak-Seon at fr-online.de, August 6, 2012 (accessed on August 6, 2012).
6. ↑ Kang Seung-woo: Korean gymnast rises from poverty . In: The Korea Times , August 7, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
7. ↑ Kwon, KJ; Lai, Alexis ( CNN ): Gymnastics Olympics 2012: Yang Hak-seon, South Korean gold gymnast, vaults from rags to riches ( Memento from August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at wptv.com, August 9, 2012 (accessed on August 8, 2012) February 2016).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yang is the family name here, Hak-seon is the first name.