Career
He is famous in the gymnastics world for performing the hardest vault in the world, a front handspring front layout with three twists. Yang is additionally working on a second difficult skill, but this vault is from a sideways entry.
He is famous in the gymnastics world for performing the hardest vault in the world, a front handspring front layout with three twists. Yang is additionally working on a second difficult skill, but this vault is from a sideways entry.
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 won gold in vault at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia. He is also the reigning world champion, having won gold in the vault at both the 2011 and 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships However, at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China, he fell on both his vaults, failing to defend his title and placing 7th overall.
