Age, Biography and Wiki
Ri Se-gwang was born on 21 January, 1985 in South Hamgyong, North Korea, is a North Korean artistic gymnast. Discover Ri Se-gwang's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?
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39 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius |
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21 January 1985 |
| Birthday |
21 January |
| Birthplace |
South Hamgyong, North Korea |
| Nationality |
North
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Ri Se-gwang Height, Weight & Measurements
At 39 years old, Ri Se-gwang height is 155 cm and Weight 54 kg.
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155 cm |
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54 kg |
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Ri Se-gwang Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ri Se-gwang worth at the age of 39 years old? Ri Se-gwang’s income source is mostly from being a successful Artist. He is from North. We have estimated Ri Se-gwang's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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Artist |
Ri Se-gwang Social Network
Timeline
Ri Se-gwang (born January 21, 1985) is a retired North Korean artistic gymnast, representing the April 25 Sports Club.
He is often considered a specialist on vault apparatus in the sport of men’s artistic gymnastics (MAG).
Ri was the first North Korean ever to win a gold medal on vault at the Asian Games, where he performed solidly at the 2006 Asian Games and was the first one for North Korea on that apparatus.
He later went on to win a bronze medal on vault at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
In 2009, Ri successfully performed an extremely difficult new vault, a Tsukahara (1/4 entry in the first flight) on the vaulting table, followed by a full twisting double backwards salto in tuck position.
The new vault is named after Ri.
The vault, now officially named the Ri Se Gwang, was valued a difficulty score of 7.2 and the second highest difficulty value in the world, with Yang Hak Seon's vault the Yang Hak Seon (front handspring triple twist) being the most difficult with a 7.4 start value in the previous 2009-2012 Code of Points (CoP) of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for MAG.
Ri competed in the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and qualified first for the individual vault final.
He finished in seventh place in that event final after a fall on his first vault and going out of bounds on his second vault, with an average score of 15.650.
Together with the entire North Korean delegation team, Ri was banned from competing in artistic gymnastics at the 2012 London Olympics due to persistent issues with regards to age falsification accusations of their female gymnasts.
The two-year ban ended on October 5, 2012, which came just a bit too late to try make that cycle's August Olympic Games.
With the defending 2012 Olympic vault champion Yang Hak Seon of South Korea out injured, Ri won gold in the individual vault final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
At the 2014 Asian Games, Ri qualified in first place ahead of the 2012 Olympic champion on vault, Yang Hak Seon of South Korea, but finished just missing the bronze medal by the narrowest of margins (0.001) with an average combined score of 14.799 on the individual vault event behind Shek Wai Hung of Hong Kong (15.216), Yang Hak Seon (15.200) and Hung Xi of China (14.800).
At the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Nanning, China, Ri defeated the reigning World and Olympic Champion Yang Hak Seon after Yang crashed in both his vaults during the event final, and won the gold medal with an average combined score of 15.413 ahead of Ihor Radivilov of Ukraine (15.333), 2012 Olympic bronze medalist on vault, and Jacob Dalton from the United States (15.199).
Ri won thanks to the quad's highest difficulty scores of 6.4 assigned to both his vaults, and despite incurring a 0.3 penalty for stepping out-of-bounds in his second vault.
On November 1, 2015, Ri participated in the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, and successfully defended his individual vault title.
He won with an average combined scored of 15.450 ahead of veteran Marian Drăgulescu of Romania (15.400) and Donnell Whittenburg of the United States (15.350).
At the 2018 Asian Games, Ri qualified in sixth place and finished in fifth place with an average combined score of 13.400 on the individual vault event behind the 2014 defending Asian Games champion on vault, Shek Wai Hung of Hong Kong (14.612), who also qualified for the 2018 individual vault event final in first place.
At the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Ri won gold with two of the highest 6.0 difficulty vaults and an average combined score of 14.933 ahead of Artur Dalaloyan of Russia (14.883) and Kenzō Shirai of Japan (14.675).
The FIG announced in February 2020 that Ri had retired from gymnastics.
Ri is the only gymnast to currently own more than one (two) of only five most difficult vaults to have officially been awarded the highest difficulty score (D-score) of 6.0 by the governing body of all disciplines in competitive gymnastics, International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), in their most recent 2022–2024 Code of Points for MAG.
