Fifth gold in Korean women’s gymnastics history… Seohyun Hwang wins balance beam title at Asian Games
Hwang Seo-hyeon, the youngest member of the national team, won the gold medal in artistic gymnastics and women's balance beam at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Quick Look
- Hwang Seo-hyun, the youngest member of the national team, won a gold medal with a score of 14.700 points in the women's balance beam artistic gymnastics final at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
- It has been 40 years since Seo Seon-aeng won the balance beam title at the Asian Games by a Korean athlete in the 1986 Seoul Games.
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Why It Matters
It has been 40 years since Seo Seon-aeng at the 1986 Seoul Games that a Korean athlete won the women's balance beam event at the Asian Games.
Fifth gold in Korean women’s gymnastics history… Won second gold medal in this competition
(Nagoya = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-han = Hwang Seo-hyeon (17, Incheon Physical Education High School), the youngest member of the national team and a promising balance beam athlete, won a gold medal in her first Asian Games.
Seo-Hyeon Hwang received 14.700 points, including a difficulty score of 6.600 and an execution score of 8.100, in the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Artistic Gymnastics Women's Balance Beam final held at the Rainbow Hall of the Nagoya Gymnasium in Japan on the 25th, ranking first among the eight participating athletes.
China's Chu Qiyuan, who took first place in the preliminaries with 14.833 points, won the silver medal with 14.566 points, and Japan's Mana Okamura won the bronze medal with 14.300 points.
Seohyun Hwang, who placed 5th in the preliminaries with a score of 13.966 and advanced to the finals, climbed onto the balance beam for the seventh time.
Seo-Hyeon Hwang steadily performed the most difficult performance among the finalists, beating Chu Chi-yuan, who was in the lead, by 0.134 points.
North Korea's Park Un-jung, who performed last, scored only 12.700 points, confirming Hwang Seo-hyun's victory.
It has been 40 years since Seo Seon-aeng at the 1986 Seoul Games that a Korean athlete won the women's balance beam event at the Asian Games.
Seo-hyun Hwang's gold medal is the fifth Asian Games gold medal in women's artistic gymnastics history, following Seo Yeon-hee's double parallel bars and Seo Seon-aeng's balance beam at the 1986 Seoul Games, and Yeo Jeong's vault gold medals at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games and this competition.
Seohyun Hwang, born in 2009, won the balance beam at the Jecheon Asian Championships and the National Sports Festival last year, and won a bronze medal at this year's Junyi Asian Championships.
Hwang Seo-hyun, who was additionally selected through ranking points for each event at the Asian Games representative selection event last May, decorated her first Asian Games with gold.
After completing the team finals on the 23rd, Seohyun Hwang pledged, “I will do my best and perform well without regrets.”
He kept his promise in two days and gave Korea's artistic gymnastics its second gold medal in this competition.
Open Questions
- What is Hwang Seo-hyun's schedule for future international competitions?
