When gymnast Yeo Seo-jeong won the Asian Games vault gold on Thursday, the medal added a second chapter to a family record in Korean gymnastics, putting her alongside her father, Yeo Hong-chul, as two-time Asian Games champions. The 24-year-old reclaimed the Asian Games women’s vault title on Thursday, eight years after winning gold on her debut, returning to the top after injuries disrupted her bid for a second consecutive Olympic medal. The gymnast scored 14.483 points in the final at Nagoya General Gymnasium, finishing ahead of defending champion An Chang-ok of North Korea, who took silver with 13.666. The victory delivered South Korea’s first gymnastics medal of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. “I’m happy and moved to have won the gold medal eight years later after preparing so hard,” Yeo Seo-jeong said after the final. The gold gave Yeo her second Asian Games vault title, following her triumph at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games in 2018 when she was 16. She is the first South Korean woman to win two Asian Games gold medals in artistic gymnastics. For Yeo Seo-jeong, the victory
