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28-582: According to his Olympic profile, Yang started his gymnastics career at the age of 9, following his brother's footsteps. Yang is currently attending the Korea National Sport University . Yang's parents are Yang Gwan-gwon and Ki Suk-hyang. Their impoverished family previously lived in one of Gwangju 's shantytowns, before relocating to North Jeolla Province 's Gochang , in South Korea's countryside, in 2010, after his father,

56-566: A 0.300 penalty for stepping out-of-bounds because of that. Yang's training and preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , Japan , were adjusted for his performance to peak accordingly for one year due to 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic . At the Olympics, he failed to qualify automatically for the individual event finals on vault after placing ninth in qualifying due to the poor execution and penalty point received in his second vault. He became

84-456: A bit too late to try make that cycle's August Olympic Games. At the 2014 Asian Games , Ri qualified in first place ahead of the 2012 Olympic champion on vault, Yang Hak Seon of South Korea , but finished just missing the bronze medal by the narrowest of margins (0.001) with an average combined score of 14.799 on the individual vault event behind Shek Wai Hung of Hong Kong (15.216), Yang Hak Seon (15.200) and Hung Xi of China (14.800). At

112-528: A brand new top then 6.4 difficulty vault, initially dubbed the Yang Hak Seon 2 , or a straight Tsukahara with 3½ twist—failing to defend his title and finished in seventh place with a final average combined score of 14.416 after qualifying in first place. Yang 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. Ri Se Gwang of North Korea won

140-508: A construction worker, suffered from serious injuries. His family currently lives in a makeshift converted greenhouse constructed from PVC pipes. After Yang's father lost his job, Yang supported the family with a modest income from the Korea Gymnastic Association. Yang's coach Cho Sung-doe admitted that he had been unaware of the family's precarious financial situation before Yang won the gold medal. Yang also competed on

168-399: A designated national university , tuition fees are low for domestic students. Due to the stipulations of its founding decree, undergraduate students majoring in physical education and sports guidance have different criteria from other national universities and receive a full tuition waiver and fully-subsidized room and board, with the requirement that they reside in the dormitories throughout

196-532: A major in physical education. The 1980s to 1990s saw rapid expansion in its course offerings as coaching, community sports, sports and leisure studies, health management, sports safety management, taekwondo and sports media were added. Graduate programs and evening classes for working students were added. The lack of space in Nowon-gu and construction of facilities for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Songpa-gu led to

224-550: A partner institution of Yonsei Institute of Sports Science & Exercise Medicine (YISSEM). The research institute specializes in sports medicine, pooling its resources from the well-established physical education programs of both universities and Yonsei's College of Medicine and Severance Hospital system. YISSEM was chosen by the International Olympic Committee as a partner research center specializing in athlete health and injury prevention. As

252-422: Is a South Korean national university located in the neighborhood of Bangi-dong , Songpa-gu , Seoul . It is the only national sport university of South Korea and offers degrees from undergraduate to doctoral level. Its broad range of course offerings caters to amateur athletes, professional athletes representing the national team and accredited physical education teachers. The success of wrestler Yang Jung-mo at

280-573: Is named after Ri. The vault, now officially named the Ri Se Gwang , was valued a difficulty score of 7.2 and the second highest difficulty value in the world, with Yang Hak Seon 's vault the Yang Hak Seon (front handspring triple twist) being the most difficult with a 7.4 start value in the previous 2009-2012 Code of Points ( CoP ) of the International Gymnastics Federation ( FIG ) for MAG. Ri competed in

308-494: The 1976 Summer Olympics prompted the South Korean government to consider opening a government-funded sports school. At that time, sports was still semi-professional and had little oversight by any centralized governing body while student athletics were primarily dominated by Korea University and Yonsei University , both of which are private universities. In December 1977, the South Korean government announced plans to open

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336-411: The 2006 Asian Games and was the first one for North Korea on that apparatus. He later went on to win a bronze medal on vault at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships . In 2009, Ri successfully performed an extremely difficult new vault, a Tsukahara (1/4 entry in the first flight) on the vaulting table, followed by a full twisting double backwards salto in tuck position. The new vault

364-558: The 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and qualified first for the individual vault final. He finished in seventh place in that event final after a fall on his first vault and going out of bounds on his second vault, with an average score of 15.650. Together with the entire North Korean delegation team, Ri was banned from competing in artistic gymnastics at the 2012 London Olympics due to persistent issues with regards to age falsification accusations of their female gymnasts. The two-year ban ended on October 5, 2012, which came just

392-544: The 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Nanning, China, Ri defeated the reigning World and Olympic Champion Yang Hak Seon after Yang crashed in both his vaults during the event final, and won the gold medal with an average combined score of 15.413 ahead of Ihor Radivilov of Ukraine (15.333), 2012 Olympic bronze medalist on vault, and Jacob Dalton from the United States (15.199). Ri won thanks to

420-543: The United States (15.350). With the defending 2012 Olympic vault champion Yang Hak Seon of South Korea out injured, Ri won gold in the individual vault final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . At the 2018 Asian Games , Ri qualified in sixth place and finished in fifth place with an average combined score of 13.400 on the individual vault event behind the 2014 defending Asian Games champion on vault, Shek Wai Hung of Hong Kong (14.612), who also qualified for

448-557: The vault competition in London . In 2013, he went on to win gold in vault at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan , Russia . He 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. It was unveiled in the individual vault final at the 2011 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships , and initially carried

476-558: The 2018 individual vault event final in first place. At the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships , Ri won gold with two of the highest 6.0 difficulty vaults and an average combined score of 14.933 ahead of Artur Dalaloyan of Russia (14.883) and Kenzō Shirai of Japan (14.675). The FIG announced in February 2020 that Ri had retired from gymnastics. Ri is the only gymnast to currently own more than one (two) of only five most difficult vaults to have officially been awarded

504-637: The Korean National College of Physical Education under the Presidential Decree (No. 8322). Rather than begin as a 2-year junior college and gradually expand, as was the case with many universities, the college was founded as a 4-year degree-granting institution. Its first students were admitted the following March for the 1978–79 academic year. The campus was then located in Nowon-gu on the outskirts of Seoul and only offered

532-624: The Korean survivor game show Physical: 100 by Netflix in 2023. Yang 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 . In 2012, he became the first Korean gymnast to win Olympic gold in gymnastics, winning

560-494: The decision to relocate the college to its present-day campus. It gained university status in 1993. The evening classes for working students were phased out by the 2000s in favor of other options, such as online learning, short certificate courses and part-time studies. The university is organized into two colleges and a division. Its graduate school is organized into three interdisciplinary schools which only oversee master's and doctorate degree programs. Since 2019, KNSU has been

588-550: The duration of their studies. Ri Se Gwang Ri Se-gwang ( Korean :  리세광 ; born January 21, 1985) is a retired North Korean artistic gymnast , representing the April 25 Sports Club . He is often considered a specialist on vault apparatus in the sport of men’s artistic gymnastics (MAG). Ri was the first North Korean ever to win a gold medal on vault at the Asian Games , where he performed solidly at

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616-613: The first reserve for the finals but ending up not competing. In the 2021 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu , Japan , Yang qualified for the individual vault apparatus finals in a tie for the highest average combined score of 14.833 with but ranked second to Nazar Chepurnyi of Ukraine after the tie-breaking procedure was applied. However, Yang completed the event in fifth place after some weak execution on his second vault once again. Korea National Sport University Korea National Sport University ( KNSU )

644-546: The gold medal with two top then 6.4 difficulty vaults that were both named after him, the Ri Se Gwang (full-twisting double Tsukahara) and Ri Se Gwang 2 (double front piked with ½ twist), and outscored Yang by exactly one full point (15.416). He was similarly unable to defend his Olympic title at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro due to injury. At the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal , Canada , Yang had "qualified" (Q) in first place for

672-453: The highest ever difficulty score (D-score) of 7.4 in men's vault at the time under the 2009–2012 Code of Points ( CoP ). The difficulty value of the Yang Hak Seon has been adjusted at the beginning of subsequent quads since, initially down to 6.4 under the 2012–2016 CoP and now further to 6.0 under the current 2017–2020 CoP . The International Gymnastics Federation ( FIG ) regularly reassesses and adjusts D-scores (typically down) due to

700-520: The quad's highest difficulty scores of 6.4 assigned to both his vaults, and despite incurring a 0.3 penalty for stepping out-of-bounds in his second vault. On November 1, 2015, Ri participated in the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow , Scotland , and successfully defended his individual vault title. He won with an average combined scored of 15.450 ahead of veteran Marian Drăgulescu of Romania (15.400) and Donnell Whittenburg of

728-403: The steady advancement of general skill levels over time in gymnastics, especially on vault because of its D-scores being assigned numeric values instead of letter representations like with all other apparatuses—vault is the only apparatus in gymnastics to have that simply due to the nature of the apparatus. Yang is also said to be working on a difficult second vault but with a sideways entry. Yang

756-485: The vault event final but pulled out after that because he had sustained a hamstring injury during qualifications. At the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart , Germany , Yang had qualified for the individual vault event final in first place, but finished eighth after falling out of the first vault—his own the Yang Hak Seon on vault, or front handspring (layout) triple twist—as well as incurring

784-459: 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. However, at the 2014 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning , China , he fell on both of his vaults—the first for which it was announced in Nanning that he was widely expected but failed to receive naming credit for

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