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Yeo Seo-jeong's Vault Final Berth Moved Her Wikipedia Reading 10 Times
Yeo Seo-jeong averaged 7.8 English Wikipedia reads a day in early-to-mid September. The day she topped vault qualifying at the Asian Games and reached her first final in eight years, that hit 78 — 10 times her baseline.
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Yeo Seo-jeong averaged 7.8 English-language Wikipedia reads a day for the ten days from 10 to 19 September. On 22 September — the day she topped vault qualifying at the 2026 Asian Games and reached her first Asian Games final in eight years — that reached 78 reads, 10.0 times her baseline.
What happened
Newspim reported that Yeo, competing at her first Asian Games since winning vault gold at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, posted a two-vault average of 14.466 at the Aichi-Nagoya Games qualifying round in Nagoya, Japan, finishing first ahead of North Korea’s Ahn Chang-ok (13.900). The result put her into the vault final for the first time in eight years.
| Day | Views | Multiple of the 7.8/day baseline |
|---|---|---|
| 10-19 Sep average (baseline) | 7.8 | 1.0× |
| 21 September (day before) | 18 | 2.3× |
| 22 September (qualifying day) | 78 | 10.0× |
Why the timing points at qualifying
Reading sat close to baseline through 19 September, ticked up to 18 on 21 September — plausibly early Games-adjacent interest — and then jumped to 78 the day qualifying results were reported. The size of the jump on the exact reporting day is consistent with the qualifying result driving it, not a slower build.
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Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Wikimedia Foundation — Pageviews API — Daily pageviews on English Wikipedia, all-access, user agents only, for Yeo_Seo-jeong, 10-22 September 2026. · https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
- Newspim (뉴스핌) — News report: 'Yeo Seo-jeong tops North Korea's Ahn Chang-ok to reach the vault final, aiming for gold eight years on,' 22 September 2026. · https://www.newspim.com/news/view/20260922001255
What we checked
- 10-19 September baseline: 7.8 views/day. 22 September (qualifying day): 78 views, 10.0x baseline.
- Yeo scored 14.466 across two vault attempts (14.300 and 14.233, averaged with a 0.200 bonus) to finish first in qualifying, ahead of North Korea's Ahn Chang-ok (13.900).
- This is her first Asian Games since 2018, where she won the vault gold — an eight-year gap the Korean coverage itself frames as the story.
What we left out, and why
- The final itself — this data was pulled before the vault final was contested, so we report the qualifying-day spike, not a medal result.
- Any reading of this as a prediction that she wins gold. Topping qualifying is not the same as winning a final.
The data behind this
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