Overcoming injuries and rehabilitation to regain the top spot at the Asian Games
Korea’s first AG gold medal in women’s mechanical gymnastics
Yeo Seo-jeong (24, Jecheon City Hall), the “Queen of Cutting Board,” delivered good news on the first day of the Chuseok holiday. He beat North Korea’s Ahn Chang-ok (23) to the top of the vault on the Asian Games stage, which he stepped back on in eight years.
Yeo Seo-jung scored the final 14.483 points in the women’s vault final at the <a href="https://bitcomme.com/designrush-names-highervisibility-a-top-seo-agency-for-2026/” title=”DesignRush Names HigherVisibility a Top SEO Agency for 2026″>2026 Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games held at Nagoya Gymnasium in Japan on the 24th, ranking first among the eight participants.
Yeo Seo-jeong came out in the third order. In the first period, he stably performed a 5.4-point “hand spring straightening one-and-a-half turn” and led the gold medal race with 14.466 points.
On the electronic display board came the phrase “fantastic,” which evaluates his performance. Yeo Seo-jung, who finished until the second period, added 0.200 bonus points to the final 14.483 points.
North Korea’s Ahn Chang-ok, a strong contender, had to settle for the silver medal with an average of 13.666.
This gold medal means a lot to Yeo Seo-jeong. After winning the gold medal in the vault at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, he won the Asian Games again for the first time in eight years. She became the first Korean female mechanical gymnast to win two Asian Games gold medals.
In the meantime, there were not a few twists and turns. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, South Korea won the Olympic bronze medal for the first time in women’s mechanical gymnastics, but the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games did not compete to focus on the world championships, which are at stake in the team event at the Paris Olympics.
Since then, he has undergone long rehabilitation due to injuries to his shoulder and Achilles tendon. However, in June, he rose to the top of the women’s vault at the Asian Championships and announced his revival, and eventually succeeded in landing gold again at the Asian Games.
Yeo Seo-jung is also the daughter of Yeo Hong-chul, executive director of the Korea Gymnastics Association, the ‘God of Cutting Board’, a silver medalist in men’s vault at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Following his father’s footsteps, he is writing a new history of Korean gymnastics.
