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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.
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
- Height
- 177 cm
- Occupation
- short-track speed skater / speed skater
2. Background
- University
- Korea National Sport University
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
Frequently asked questions
When was Lee Seung-hoon born?
Born March 6, 1988 (age 38).
Where is Lee Seung-hoon from?
Lee Seung-hoon is from Seoul, South Korea.
What does Lee Seung-hoon do?
Lee Seung-hoon works as short-track speed skater, speed skater.
How tall is Lee Seung-hoon?
Lee Seung-hoon is 177 cm.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.