Lee Ok-sung

Lee Ok -sung, and Lee Ok- seong ( born February 7, 1981 in Jinju ) is a retired South Korean boxer. In 2005 he was world champion in the flyweight.

Career

The 1.72 m wide flyweight ( 48 to 51 kg) won the 23rd Asian Championship in Ho Chi Minh City in September 2005. He hit play in the final the Pakistanis Nauman Karim ( 24:10 ), bronze medalist of the World Cup 2003. Thereupon he started at the 13th World Championships in Mianyang, where he was in the preliminary round against Igor Samolenko from Moldova ( 30:20 ), in the second round against Nikoloz Isoria from Georgia ( 26:17 ), in the quarterfinals against Anwar Junussow from Tajikistan ( 15:9 ), in the semi-final against Rau'shee Warren from the USA ( 44:27 ) and in the final against Andry Laffita from Cuba ( 33: prevailed 22) and won the gold medal. He was thus the first South Korean amateur boxing champion in 19 years.

In 2008 he competed at the Asian Olympic qualifiers in Thailand, where he was able to defeat the starter from Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and China and moved to the final. There he eventually lost against Anwar Junussow, whom he had defeated at the 2005 World Cup. By the second place, he received a start authorization for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. He was in the first fight again against the Americans Rau'shee Warren ( 9:8 ) prevail, but retired in the second round against the Tunisian Walid Cherif from ( 5:11 ) and reached 9th place