Ri Se-Gwang, the Rio Olympic vault champion from North Korea, announced his retirement last week, according to the International Gymnastics Federation.
Ri, 35, earned one of North Korea’s two gold medals overall at the Rio Games.
Ri performed the most difficult combination of vaults — each with a 6.4 difficulty — and took one step on each landing to beat Russian Denis Ablyazin and Japanese Kenzo Shirai. He became the oldest Olympic gymnastics champion since 1968, according to the OlyMADMen.
Rio marked Ri’s lone Olympics.
He earned vault bronze at the 2007 World Championships but was unable to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games.