[National Sports Festival] Yeo Yeo-jeong, winner of 4 gold medals, receives MVP award... 3rd honor for a gymnast ever (overall)

(Jeju = Yonhap News) Reporter Kyung-yoon Kim = Women's artistic gymnastics star Yeo Yeo-jeong (Jecheon City Hall) received the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) at the National Sports Festival in 14 years as a gymnast.

Yeo Yeo-jeong, winner of four competitions, was selected as the MVP of the 107th National Sports Festival by receiving 30 out of 56 votes (53.57% of the votes) in the press vote announced by the Korea Sports Council on the 22nd.

It has been 14 years since Seong Ji-hye in 2012 that an artistic gymnast was named MVP of the National Sports Festival.

In addition, in 1986, she became the third artistic gymnast to receive the honor of MVP at the National Sports Festival, following Kim Kyung-hoon and Seong Ji-hye.

Yeo Yeo-jeong won a gold medal with 52.966 points in the individual all-around and a silver medal in the team all-around with 190.000 points in the women's general artistic gymnastics division held at Halla Gymnasium in Jeju on the 7th. On the 9th, she won gold medals in vault (14.083 points), balance beam (13.233 points), and floor (13.000 points). Won a bronze medal in the double parallel bars (12.700 points).

In this competition, he achieved the best performance among the athletes participating in the general division by winning 6 medals, including 4 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal.

Swimmer Kim Seo-young (Gyeongbuk Provincial Office) won 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal, swimming Kim Young-beom (Gangwon Provincial Office) won 4 gold medals, and swimming Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) won 4 gold medals and 1 exhibition gold medal, falling short of Yeo Jeong's performance.

Through this tournament, Hwang Seon-woo was named MVP of the National Sports Festival for the fifth time in history and attempted to tie the record for the most individual awards with Park Tae-hwan, but failed.

Yeo Yeo-jeong is the daughter of Yeo Hong-cheol, executive director of the Korean Gymnastics Association, a silver medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and is a recognized figure in artistic gymnastics.

He won a bronze medal in vault at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and won the vault event at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games and the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Yeo Yeo-jeong receives a prize money of 5 million won and a trophy from the Korea Sports Council.

Yeo Seo-jeong, who is currently participating in the World Championships held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands after playing a pre-game ahead of the opening of this National Sports Festival (16th), said, "I am really happy and honored to be selected as MVP. It is even more meaningful and grateful to be selected for the first time."

He said, "I think it's more meaningful that I was able to get good results as I prepared hard for this competition. I'm grateful to everyone who always supports and helps me, and I will work hard to show a better performance in the future."

The Korea Sports Council has selected MVPs since the 61st competition in 1980.