Nickname
Gibbon (YouTube channel, 20 Apr 2023)
Hobbies
Making videos. (YouTube channel, 02 Apr 2022)
Occupation
Student
Spoken languages
Korean
Club
Korea National Sport University: Seoul, KOR
Coach
Jo Seong-Min [national], KOR
Injuries
He sustained an injury to his ankle at the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool, Great Britain. (Instagram profile, 06 Nov 2022)
He was sidelined with injury between July and September in 2022. (Instagram profile, 27 Sep 2022)
He suffered an injury to his shin in middle school. He was troubled by the same injury in March 2019 and was forced to leave a national team training camp. (hankookilbo.com, 11 Jul 2019)
Start sporting career
He took up gymnastics seriously at age 11 at Yangsa Elementary School in Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
Reason for taking up the sport
He discovered the sport at age eight after watching older students train at his primary school. But his father, who was a footballer, opposed his aspiration to become an artistic gymnast so it took three years for Sung-Hyun and his coach to persuade his father to let him do the sport.
Ambitions
To have a floor element named after him, and to win gold medals on floor and vault at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (wkorea.com, 24 Sep 2021; donga.com, 07 Apr 2021; hankookilbo.com, 11 Jul 2019)
Hero / Idol
Korean artistic gymnast Yang Hak-Seon. (hankookilbo.com, 11 Jul 2019)
Most influential person in career
His parents. (donga.com, 07 Apr 2021)
Last update : 2024-07-22
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