Lee Dae-hoon

Lee Dae-Hoon (Hangul: 이대훈; Korean pronunciation: [i.dɛ̝.ɦun]; born February 5, 1992) is a South Korean taekwondo athlete. He won a bronze medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics and a silver in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In this 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]
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[3]
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
ClubYongin University
Coached byLee Joo Yoel
Medal record
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
2012 London 58 kg
2016 Rio De Janeiro 68 kg
World Championships
2011 Gyeongju 63 kg
2013 Puebla 63 kg
2017 Muju 68 kg
2019 Manchester 68 kg
Grand Prix
2014 Suzhou 68 kg
2015 Manchester 68 kg
2015 Mexico City 68 kg
2016 Baku 68 kg
2017 Moscow 68 kg
2017 Rabat 68 kg
2018 Rome 68 kg
2018 Taoyuan 68 kg
2018 Manchester 68 kg
2018 Fujairah68 kg
2019 Moscow 68 kg
2015 Moscow 68 kg
2019 Rome 68 kg
2019 Sofia 68 kg
2015 Samsun 68 kg
2019 Chiba 68 kg
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou 63 kg
2014 Incheon 63 kg
2018 Jakarta-Palembang 68 kg
Asian Championships
2012 Ho Chi Minh City 58 kg
2014 Tashkent 63 kg
2018 Asian Games podium

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. At the 2016 Summer Olympics Lee won a bronze medal, beating Jaouad Achab from Belgium 11–7.[7][8] In 2016 WTF World Taekwondo Grand-Prix, Lee won gold against Konstantin Minin.

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

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lee Dae-hoon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
  2. Lee Dae-Hoon Archived 2016-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
  3. Daehoon Lee. rio2016.com
  4. "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.


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