Yang Tae-young
South Korean gymnast
Yang Tae-Young (Korean: 양태영, born July 8, 1980) is a South Korean artistic gymnast and a bronze-medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Yang was born in Seoul, and made his Gymnastics World Championships debut at the 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Ghent. He is best known for being part of the 2004 Olympics judging controversy in the all-around event where a scoring error placed him in third place behind his teammate and silver-medalist Kim Dae-Eun and gold-medalist American Paul Hamm.
Personal life
Yang was born in Seoul in 1980. He has a brother, Yang Tae-Seok who is also a gymnast.
Gymnastics career
Yang began practicing gymnastics in middle school, a relatively late age compared to other competitive artistic gymnasts.
Yang first competed at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2001, placing eighth in the team event. At the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, he won the silver medal in the team event.
He competed at the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, helping South Korea qualify a team to the 2004 Olympics by finishing in twelfth place.
At the 2004 Olympics, the South Korean team placed in fourth in the team event.
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