'Artistic Gymnastics Star' Yeo Seo-jeong Aims for Vault Gold... 48-Year-Old So Seung-seop Makes First Asian Games Appearance, Kang Dong-shin Clashes with 11-Year-Old Japanese Athlete [Nagoya AG]

[Financial News] On the 24th, as the Chuseok holiday begins, Korean athletes will compete for medals across the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Yeo Seo-jeong, the star of women's artistic gymnastics, aims to reclaim the top spot in the vault for the first time in eight years. So Seung-seop, a 48-year-old shooting athlete and the oldest member of the Korean delegation, will compete in his first-ever Asian Games event, while e-sports national team member Kang Dong-shin will participate in the Puyo Puyo qualifiers alongside 11-year-old Japanese player Yuki Kurihara.

Yeo Seo-jeong will compete in the women's vault final held at the Nagoya General Gymnasium today. Having qualified in first place in the preliminary round on the 22nd, she is expected to compete for the gold medal against North Korea's An Chang-Ok and others. Yeo Seo-jeong, the daughter of Yeo Hong-chul, Executive Director of the Korea Gymnastics Association and a silver medalist in the men's vault at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, won the gold medal in this event at the Jakarta-Palembang 2018.
In the men's floor exercise, Ryu Sung-hyun (Seoul City Hall), who finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics, is competing for a medal. Ryu advanced to the finals in second place behind Carlos Yulo (Philippines) with a score of 14.566 in the preliminary round of this competition. He won the floor exercise at the 2019 World Junior Championships and also took home a gold medal at the 2024 Cairo World Cup.

Hong Soo-hyun, So Seung-seop, and Kim Tae-young will compete in the men's 10m air pistol shooting event.
This is the first Asian Games for So Seung-seop, who has continued his athletic career for 37 years. He started shooting in the fifth grade of elementary school and qualified for the Asian Games for the first time in 37 years. At the 2025 World Championships, he won a gold medal in the 50m pistol team event and a bronze medal in the 25m centerfire pistol team event.
In fencing, Jeon Ha-young and Kim Jeong-mi in women's sabre, and Park Sang-young and Jang Hyo-min in men's épée are aiming for individual medals. Attention is focused on the performance of Jeon Ha-young, the silver medalist in the women's sabre team event at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, and Park Sang-young, the gold medalist in the men's épée individual event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The women's national basketball team, having secured three consecutive wins in the group stage, will face Indonesia in the quarterfinals. The Korean women's basketball team is aiming for its first championship in 12 years since Asian Games Incheon 2014. If the women's team also reaches the top following the men's team, which has already won the gold medal in this tournament, it will mark a double victory for both men and women.
The esports event 'Puyo Puyo Champions,' which has become an official event for the first time in this tournament, also begins on this day. Korea's Kang Dong-shin will compete in the qualifiers against the youngest member of the Japanese team, 11-year-old Kurihara Yuki.

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