Lee Seung-hoon

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.

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Name (English)

Lee Seung-hoon

Name (Japanese)

李承勲

Reading

い・すんふん

Born

March 6, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

177 cm

Occupation

short-track speed skater / speed skater

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

University

Korea National Sport University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/seunghoon36525/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Seung-hoon%20(speed%20skater)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%89%BF%E5%8B%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182089

Tags

• short-track speed skater
• speed skater

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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