Yang Hak Seon
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| Full name | Yang Hak-Seon |
| Nickname(s) | The God of Vault |
| Country represented |
 South Korea
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| Born |
December 6, 1992 Gwangju, South Korea |
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in) |
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
Yang Hak-seon or Yang Hak-Seon (Hangul: 양학선, Korean pronunciation: [jaŋ.ɦak.s͈ʌn]; born 6 December 1992) is the first South Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal.
According to his Olympic profile, Yang started his gymnastics career at the age of 9, following his brother's footsteps into the sport.
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, 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 is the reigning vault champion at the Asian Games. In 2012, he became the first Korean gymnast to win Olympic gold in gymnastics, winning 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 two hardest vaults in the world, the Yang, which is a front handspring on and three twists off in layout position. It was unveiled at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo, and carried the highest ever difficulty score of 7.4 in men's vault at the time under the 2009-2012 Code of Points (CoP). The difficulty score (D-score) of the Yang has been adjusted at the beginning of every quarter since, initially down to 6.4 under the 2012-2016 CoP and now down to 6.0 under the current 2017-2020 CoP. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) regularly reassess and adjusts D-scores (typically) down due to the advancement of skills in gymnastics, especially on vault because of its D-scores being assigned numeric values instead of alphabetical representations, the only apparatus in gymnastics to do so. Yang is additionally said to be working on a second difficult vault, but this one is a sideways entry.
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