North Korea scored three gold medals in one day, and the winner shone brightly with his hands raised at the award ceremony
North Korea, which participated in the international comprehensive competition for the first time in five years, won three gold medals in one day, and the medal ranking jumped to the middle table. On the 28th, North Korea won 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal in vault and 1 silver medal in vault for Kim Sun-hyang in the women's individual gymnastics final of the Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Huanglong Sports Center Stadium in Hangzhou. Prior to this, North Korea won its first gold medal in the women's 10m moving target standard speed team event.
On the 28th, North Korea's Ahn Chang-ok, who won the gold medal in the women's gymnastics vault final of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, took the podium to salute the national flag
North Korea rose from 19th in the gold medal list with 3 golds, 5 silvers and 4 bronzes to 10th place at 8:50 p.m. on the 28th, rising 9 places. An Changyu and the shooting team members raised their hands to salute at the award ceremony.
An Changyu averaged 14.049 points in the first two rounds of the women's vault, and was the only one of the eight competitors to win the championship with more than 14 points. In addition, on the uneven bars, she also scored about 14.266 points of about 14 points alone, and both events carried the human flag to the top of the award ceremony with overwhelming technology.
North Korean athletes Ahn Chang-ok and Kim Sun-hyang, who won the women's vault championship and runner-up at the Hangzhou Asian Games
North Korea unilaterally missed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, saying it would stop the flow of novel coronavirus pneumonia into the country. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said North Korea violated the Olympic charter that all National Olympic Committees (NOCs) must participate in the Olympics and suspended its NOC qualification by the end of 2022, banning it from participating in international competitions. With the IOC's penalties lifted in 2023, North Korea returned to international competitions for the first time in five years through the Asian Games, the first time since the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang.
Although it has not been able to participate in foreign competitions for five years, North Korea may have strengthened its cohesion through internal competition, did not feel the previous gap at the Hangzhou Asian Games, and is showing excellent technology.
On the 28th, in the women's 10-meter moving target standard speed team competition of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the North Korean women's shooting team won the gold medal and reached the podium.
At this Asian Games, if it were not for the decisive mistake in the shooting men's 10m moving target team competition, the gold medal would not have been South Korea's, but North Korea's. North Korea's strong performance in women's gymnastics, such as vault, has emerged. Counting the two bronze medals in the women's team competition and the individual all-around (Kim so-jing), North Korea has won five of the 12 medals it has won so far in gymnastics.
North Korea won 12 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze medals at the Asian Games in Jakarta five years ago.