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Lee Seung-hoon

李承勲　/　い・すんふん

Short-track speed skater from South Korea

March 6, 1988 (age 38)　・　Seoul, South Korea

short-track speed skater
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My Take

What grabs me about Lee Seung-hoon is the sheer audacity of his career pivot. He started in short track, then switched to long-track speed skating and immediately won 10,000m gold and 5,000m silver at Vancouver 2010, the first Asian man ever to do it. That kind of reinvention takes nerve and a brutal work ethic, because distance skating is a lonely grind of lap after lap against your own pain. His mass start gold on home ice at PyeongChang 2018 felt like poetic justice. I see him as a craftsman of the oval, quietly proving that an athlete can rewrite his own ceiling.

Overview

Lee Seung-hoon (Korean: 이승훈; Korean pronunciation: [i.sɯŋ.ɦun]; born 6 March 1988) is a South Korean speed skater. He won a gold medal in the 10,000 metres, a silver medal in the 5000 meters at the 2010 Winter Olympics, becoming the first and only Asian man ever to achieve these feats, a gold medal in mass-start at the 2018 Winter Olympics, a gold medal in the mass start at the 2016 World Championships in Kolomna, an…

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1. Profile

Name (English): Lee Seung-hoon
Name (Japanese): 李承勲
Reading: い・すんふん
Born: March 6, 1988 (age 38)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Dragon
Origin: Seoul, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: 177 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: short-track speed skater / speed skater

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Korea National Sport University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/seunghoon36525/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%89%BF%E5%8B%B2

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