Nickname
Gibbon (Instagram profile, 22 Apr 2022)
Hobbies
Making videos. (YouTube channel, 02 Apr 2022)
Occupation
Student
Education
Korea National Sport University, Seoul, KOR
Spoken languages
Korean
Club
Korea National Sport University [Seoul, KOR]
Coach
Shin Hyeong-Ook [national], KOR
Injuries
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 the sport seriously at age 11 at Yangsa Elementary School in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. (donga.com, 07 Apr 2021)
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. (donga.com, 07 Apr 2021; Green Unbrella Naver blog, 03 Sep 2020)
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)
Trainings
He trains for four hours a day. (wkorea.com, 24 Sep 2021)
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 : 2022-04-04
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