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Although the International Gymnastics Federation punished the North Korean gymnastics federation by barring their women's team from competing at the 1993 World Championships, they did allow Kim to keep her medal. [2] North Korea faced further age-falsification controversy when it was discovered that 2007 World silver medalist Hong Su-jong had ...
North Korea's attendance at the Winter Games has been sporadic; eight of the last thirteen Games have included a North Korean team. During the 1998-2007 Sunshine Policy era, North Korea and South Korea symbolically marched as one team at the opening ceremonies of the 2000, [2] 2004, and 2006 Olympics, but competed separately.
Note: The International Gymnastics Federation recommended to the IOC that the medals of the Chinese team be stripped, and awarded to the fourth-placed United States team, as it was revealed that Dong Fangxiao was underage (14, with age limit >16) at the time. The IOC upheld the FIG decision in April 2010.
This was the first Olympic medal for a North Korean woman in Olympic gymnastics. [2] Hong won the gold medal in vault at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan (tied with Russian gymnast Ksenia Afanasyeva) and is the bronze medalist on vault at the 2013 World Championships. The following year she won the vault final at the World Championships.
The Olympic gold medal is the mark of achievement of the highest level in a particular sport. Many high schools proudly point to an alumnus who has been to the Olympics. Relatively few high schools have the depth to have produced more than one Olympic gold medalist. Notes: T = team gold medalist; WR = also hold the current world record
She won one in 1960, four in 1964, and six in 1968. She won the individual all-around golds in 1964 and 1968. She holds the record for the most individual gold medals (with 7, all her golds are individual). She remains the only gymnast, male or female, to have won an Olympic gold medal in each individual event. [9] Nadia Comăneci, who competed ...
For the making of the list, results from four major senior-level international competitions were consulted, as follows: 1) the Olympic Games; 2) the different editions of the World Gymnastics Championships, organized by FIG for each of the gymnastics disciplines; 3) the different stages of the FIG World Cup, as well as the events that preceded it – the IFSA World Cup and the FIT World Cup ...
As of 2023, over fifty editions of the championships have been staged, and over fifty countries have earned medals in artistic gymnastics events. The most successful nation, both in gold medal results and total number of medals, is the former Soviet Union (not including medals from its successor states), and China is the second.