Lee Seung-hoon

Lee Seung -hoon (Korean 이승훈; born March 6, 1988 in Seoul) is a South Korean speed skater who was active as Shorttracker before. His biggest success was winning the gold medal in the 10,000 m at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver when he ran Olympic best. In addition to an Olympic silver medal in the 5,000 m in 2010, he won three gold medals at the Asian Championships in speed skating. Lee is currently studying at the Korea National Sport University.

Career

Short track speed skating

Lee already started in elementary school with the Shorttracken and continued training despite financial problems of parents about high school to university continuing. His first international medal he won at the short track speed skating World Cup in Beijing in 2005 when he won the 1500m silver and 3000m bronze medal, with the 5000 - meter relay. Two years later he took at the Winter Universiade in 2007 in Turin and won silver on the 1,000 m and 3,000 m distance, as well as bronze in the 1,500 m. He also won the gold medal in the 5,000 - meter relay. For short track speed skating World Cup in 2008 in South Korea Gangneung he won over 3000m and again with the 5,000 - meter relay gold.

In the Winter Universiade in 2009 in Harbin (China ) Lee won over 1,000 m, 1,500 m and 3,000 m respectively the gold medal. It is thus by Sung Si - bak, 2007, five gold medals won, the most successful Shorttracker at a Universiade. He also won the bronze medal with the 5,000 - meter relay.

Because there are so many Shorttracker in South Korea, the competition was very high, so Lee was surprisingly not nominated despite strong performances in recent competitions for the South Korean Championships in April 2009. Then Lee decided to switch from short track speed skating to, which is less popular in South Korea. After defeating favorites Choi Geun -won in a preliminary round, he was inducted into the South Korean national team.

Speed ​​Skating

His first major competition in speed skating denied Lee at the Asia Single Distance Championships 2010 in Obihiro Japan, where he won three gold medals in the 1,500 m, 5,000 m and 10,000 m, where he respectively aufstellte a personal best.

After Lee had met the Olympic standard, it adopted at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in part. His first contest he competed in the 5,000 m, where in a time of 6:16,95 min it behind the Dutchman Sven Kramer won the silver medal. This was the third South Korean speed skater Lee, which reached a medal rank at the Olympic Games as well as the first Asian ever to win an Olympic medal in a long distance.

About 10,000 m Lee Seung -hoon was the fifth of eight pairs with a time of 12:58,55 min Olympic record. In the last couple of Dutch Sven Kramer ran against Russian Ivan Skobrew and led into the middle of the race with more than four seconds. In the seven- kilometer mark Kramer, however, was rejected by his coach in a wrong path and thus later disqualified by the jury, even though he had undercut the goal Lee's personal best again. Then, the gold medal was awarded to the South Koreans.

At the seventh Asian Winter Games in Astana Lee Seung -hoon won the gold medals in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m and gold in the mass start. In the relay, the South Korean team was beaten by three hundredths of Japan, who set a new Asian record.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 he was again qualified in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m, was able to repeat his success from Vancouver, however. About 10,000 m he reached with a time of 13:11,68 min fourth place, before eventually together with Kim Cheol -min and Hyong Joo -jun won the silver medal in the team pursuit. The same medal had reached the trio already at the World Single Distance Championships in 2013.

Personal best

Lee Seung -hoon currently holds the following personal bests in speed skating (as of 2011):

  • 500 m: 37.65 s ( Harbin, China, December 28, 2010)
  • 1,000 m: 1:23,90 min ( Seoul, South Korea, December 1, 2001)
  • 1,500 m: 1:49,29 min ( Obihiro, Japan, January 10, 2010)
  • 3,000 m: 3:50,80 min ( Seoul, January 4, 2011)
  • 5,000 m: 6:14,67 min ( Salt Lake City, USA, December 12, 2009)
  • 10.00 m: 12:58,55 min ( Richmond, Canada, February 23, 2010) ( OR)
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