YANG Hakseon

Olympic Games

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	SR	Team
2012	London, GBR	49	1	68	70	57	12

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	PB	SR	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	58	8	-	38	-	9
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	-	9	-	38	-	-
2014	Nanning, CHN	26	7	-	72	253	10
2013	Antwerp, BEL	-	1	-	-	-	-
2011	Tokyo, JPN	41	1	73	49	188	7
2010	Rotterdam, NED	69	4	84	39	208	8

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	VT
2019/2020	2 x 1st

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019/2020	Vault	Doha, QAT	15.266
1	2019/2020	Vault	Baku, AZE	14.970

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

The God of Vault, Beef Jerky [as a reference to the persistent injuries he has sustained to his right hamstring]. (news.kmib.co.kr, 13 Jul 2018; sportsseoul.com, 14 Dec 2015)

Athlete

Korea National Sport University, Seoul, KOR

Wife Park Jong Ye

Korean

Suwon City Hall [Republic of Korea]

Shin Hyeong-Ook [national], KOR

2010 for Republic of Korea (FIG, 11 Oct 2010)

He competed at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea despite suffering an injury to his right hamstring. The same injury forced him to withdraw from the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, Republic of Korea and miss the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. He also withdrew from the vault final at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, QC, Canada, after aggravating a hamstring injury during the warm-up and he was again troubled by his right hamstring in June 2021. (yna.co.kr, 13 Jun 2021; intlgymnast.com, 08 Oct 2017; sportsq.co.kr, 27 Oct 2015; yonhapnews.co.kr, 21 Jul 2015, 29 Jun 2015; Asiad Daily, 26 Sep 2014, 21 Sep 2014)

He fractured his right hand in 2018. (Instagram profile, 28 Nov 2019; news.joins.com, 24 Jul 2019)

In March 2016 he injured his right Achilles tendon during training. He required surgery and missed the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (imnews.imbc.com, 26 Apr 2017; yonhapnews.co.kr, 08 Jul 2016)

He suffered from injuries to his back and right ankle in 2013. (sbsespn.sbs.co.kr, 18 Apr 2014; english.chosun.com, 22 Oct 2013)

2010 (epeopletoday.com, 29 Aug 2014)

He took up gymnastics at age nine at school. (sports.donga.com, 21 Apr 2014; english.hani.co.kr, 08 Aug 2012)

He followed his brother into the sport. (navercast.naver.com, 20 Aug 2012; seoul.co.kr, 24 Sep 2010)

To win a gold medal in vault at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (hani.co.kr, 05 Feb 2020)

"My biggest rival is myself." (sporbiz.co.kr, 27 Jan 2020)

He and Korean baseball player Chan Ho Park were chosen as the final torch bearers for the opening ceremony of the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. (gwangju2015.kr, 03 Jul 2015)

He was named Athlete of the Year at the Korean Athletics Awards in 2012 and 2013. (people.search.naver.com, 12 Aug 2014)

He was named 2011 Gymnast of the Year by the Korea Gymnastics Association. (people.search.naver.com, 12 Aug 2014)