'Yeo Hong-cheol's daughter' Yeo Seo-jeong made new history for Korea! 'First ever in men's artistic gymnastics vault' AG second gold medal triumph [Nagoya on-site]

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Yeo Seo-jeong (24, Jecheon City Hall), competing at the 2026 Aichi·Nagoya (Japan) Asian Games, made new history for South Korean artistic gymnastics.

On the afternoon of the 24th at 5:55 p.m., Yeo secured the gold medal in the women's vault final at the Nagoya City General Gymnasium with a final score of 14.483 points.

Two days earlier, she recorded 14.466 points in the preliminaries to finish first and advance to the finals, surpassing North Korea's An Chang-ok (13.900 points). Yeo maintained excellent form on the final stage and stood atop the podium.

With this victory, Yeo won her second career Asian Games gold medal, following her triumph at the 2018 Jakarta·Palembang (Indonesia) Games.

Yeo Seo-jeong is the first South Korean female artistic gymnast to win more than one gold medal at the Asian Games.

She won her first gold medal at the age of 16 in the Jakarta·Palembang Games but skipped the 2022 Hangzhou Games held in 2023 to focus on the World Championships.

After returning for her second Asian Games eight years later, she climbed back to the top of the podium once again, rewriting history for South Korean artistic gymnastics.

Yeo, who was the third competitor among the eight finalists, received a total of 14.466 points in her first routine: a difficulty score of 5.400 and an execution score of 9.066.

In her second routine, she earned 14.100 points with a difficulty score of 5.000 and an execution score of 9.100.

Yeo added a bonus of 0.200 points to the average of her two routines (14.283), recording a final score of 14.483 before watching the results of other competitors.

As Yeo's "rival" North Korea's An Chang-ok, who competed next, made an error, the likelihood of Yeo winning gold increased.

An recorded 14.300 points in her first routine with a difficulty score of 5.600 and an execution score of 8.700. However, in her second routine, she slipped immediately after landing and fell. She scored only 13.033 points (difficulty 5.400, execution 7.933, penalty 0.3), resulting in a final score of 13.666, which was not enough to surpass Yeo.

Not only An, but the scores of all other competitors who followed were far below Yeo's. Ultimately, Yeo stood atop the podium once again at her second Asian Games after eight years and smiled brightly.

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