3rd Place in Pommel Horse Finals with an Average Score of 14.733
Becomes Father-Daughter Olympic Medalists with Yeo Hong-cheol
Yeo Seo-jeong (19, Suwon City Hall) became the first South Korean female artistic gymnast to win an Olympic medal. On the 1st, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics women's vault final held at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, she scored 15.333 points in the first attempt and 14.133 points in the second attempt. With an average score of 14.733, she won the bronze medal behind Rebeca Andrade (Brazil, 15.083 points) and Mykayla Skinner (USA, 14.916 points).
Yeo Seo-jeong is a gold medalist from the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games. She brought gold to South Korean women's artistic gymnastics for the first time in 32 years since the 1986 Seoul Asian Games, making her a medal contender in this competition. In her first attempt, she performed the 'Yeo Seo-jeong (720-degree turn)' with a difficulty score of 6.2, named after her, meeting expectations. Adding an execution score of 9.133, she achieved 15.333 points, making a gold medal within reach. However, in the second attempt, she received a somewhat low score of 14.133, which caused her to fall behind the two competitors in the average score.
The bronze medal is no less a source of hope for South Korean artistic gymnastics. Until now, South Korean female artistic gymnasts had never won an Olympic medal. Yeo Seo-jeong also made history as the first parent-child Olympic medalists in South Korea alongside her father, Yeo Hong-chul, a professor at Kyung Hee University, who won a silver medal in men's vault at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
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