Lee Dae-hoon

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.
Lee Dae-hoon

Lee at the 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1992-02-05) February 5, 1992
Seoul, South Korea[1][2]
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[3]
Sport
Sport Taekwondo
Club Yongin University

Lee Dae-Hoon (Hangul: 이대훈) (born February 5, 1992) is a South Korean Taekwondo practitioner.

Career

Lee grew up practicing martial art at his father's taekwondo academy from age 5.[4]

He won gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games,[5] and repeated his success at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.[6]

Originally a bantamweight (under 63 kg), Lee temporarily went down in weight to flyweight (under 58 kg) after the 2011 World Championships in order to compete in the 2012 Olympics, where there were only four weight classes.[4] Lee made his international flyweight debut at the 2011 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan where he had his first international loss to 2008 Olympic silver medalist Gabriel Mercedes 14-12 in the semifinals. In May 2012, however, he captured his first flyweight gold medal at the 2012 Asian Taekwondo Championships, beating reigning Asian flyweight champion Pen-Ek Karaket 8-4 in the final bout. In 2016 Summer Olympics Lee captured bronze medal beating Jaouad Achab from Belgium 11-7.[7][8]

References

  1. Lee Dae-Hun. sports-reference.com
  2. Lee Dae-Hoon. nbcolympics.com
  3. Daehoon Lee. rio2016.com
  4. 1 2 "Asiad champ hoping to bring fun back to taekwondo". Yonhap. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  5. "Taekwondoists seek family support". The Korea Times. 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  6. "S. Korea bags two more taekwondo gold medals". Yonhap. 2014-10-02. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  7. LEE, Dae-Hoon. taekwondodata.com
  8. "Rio 2016: S. Korean Lee Dae-hoon wins taekwondo bronze". The Korea Times. 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2016-09-06.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lee Dae-Hoon.

Lee's father, Lee Joo-yeol, used to run his own taekwondo academy,


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.