Yang Tae-young
| Yang Tae-Young | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | July 8, 1980 Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yang Tae-Young (Korean: 양태영, born July 8, 1980) is a South Korean 2004 Olympic medalist in artistic gymnastics.
Yang was born in Seoul, and made his World Gymnastics Championships debut in 2001, competing with the eighth-place South Korean team in Ghent. He also participated in the 2003 Worlds in Anaheim, where he helped the Korean squad qualify a full team to the 2004 Olympics with a twelfth-place finish. Yang also competed in the all-around final in Anaheim, placing twelfth. At the 2004 Olympics, Yang contributed to the Korean team's fourth-place finish, placed tenth on high bar, and won a bronze medal in the all-around. He won a bronze medal at the team event in the 2006 Asian Games.