Lee Seung-bae

Lee Seung- bae ( born May 10, 1971) is a retired South Korean boxer. Lee was Asian champion in 1992 and 1995, winning the Asian Games in 1994, bronze medalist of the 1992 Olympics and silver medalist at the Asian Games in 1998 and the Olympics in 1996.

Career

In 1992, Lee at middleweight ( - 75kg), the Asian Championships, taking in the final against Altangereb Bandi, Mongolia, won. In the same year he competed in the Olympic Games and reached after victories over Michal Franek, Czechoslovakia ( 6-2 ), Ricardo Araneda, Chile ( 12:8 ), and Albert Papilaya, Indonesia ( 15:3 ), the semi-finals, which he against Ariel Hernández, Cuba ( 14:1 ), lost and thus won the Olympic silver medal.

1994 Lee won the Asian Games with a final victory over Arkadiy Topayev, Kazakhstan ( 10:7 ). At the Asia Championships 1995 Lee won the gold medal in the light heavyweight ( 81kg - ), where he defeated in the final Vassiliy Jirov, Kazakhstan ( 15:2 ). The following year he took part in the Olympic Games and reached after victories over Sam Leuji, Zambia ( 14:0 ), Freddy Rojas, Cuba ( 13:9 ), Stipe Drvis, Croatia ( 14:11 ), Thomas Ulrich, Germany ( 12:8 ), the final of which he, but lost against Vasily Shirov, Kazakhstan ( 17:4 ) and thus won the Olympic silver medal.

Lee started in 1998 at the Asian Games and also reached the final, which he lost to Sergei Mihailov, Uzbekistan ( 9:5 ).