Pyon Kwang-sun

Pyon competed with the North Korean team that won the silver medal at the 2002 Asian Games. Individually, she advanced into the balance beam final and won the bronze medal.^[2] At the 2003 World Championships, she advanced into the uneven bars final and finished in fourth place. She was only 0.012 points away from bronze medalist Beth Tweddle.^[3]

Pyon represented North Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics alongside Kim Un-jong, Hong Su-jong, Ri Hae-yon, Kang Yun-mi, Han Jong-ok. In the qualification round, the team finished last out of the 12 teams competing, but Pyon qualified for the all-around final in 23rd place and the uneven bars final in eighth place. She finished seventeenth in the all-around final,^[4] and she finished fourth in the uneven bars final. She was only 0.037 points away from winning the bronze medal.^[5]

Pyon helped North Korea win the team bronze medal at the 2005 East Asian Games, but she did not advance into any of the individual finals.^[6] She then helped the team win the silver medal behind China at the 2006 Asian Championships. Individually, she won the all-around bronze medal behind Chinese gymnasts Zhou Zhuoru and He Ning. She also won the bronze medal on the uneven bars, behind He and Zhou.^[7] She then competed with the North Korean team that finished 13th at the 2006 World Championships.^[8] At the 2006 Asian Games, Pyon initially won a silver medal in the team event, but the medal was stripped after the International Gymnastics Federation discovered that Cha Yong-hwa's age was falsified.^[9][10] Individually, she advanced to the all-around final and finished sixth and the balance beam final and finished fifth.^[11]