Chun Lee-kyung

Korean spelling
Hangeul	전이경
Hanja	全 利 卿
Revised Romanization	Jeon I-gyeong
McCune- Reischauer	Chŏn Yi-kyŏng
See also : Korean name

Chun Lee-kyung medal table
Short track
South Korea
winter Olympics
gold	1994 Lillehammer	1000 m
gold	1994 Lillehammer	3000 m relay
gold	1998 Nagano	1000 m
gold	1998 Nagano	3000 m relay
bronze	1998 Nagano	500 m

Chun Lee-kyung (born January 6, 1976 in Gyeongsangbuk-do ) is a short track runner from South Korea . She is the second most successful athlete at the Winter Olympics in the relatively new short track discipline, just behind Wang Meng , who has one more silver medal (in the men's category, Wiktor Ahn has one more bronze medal).

Career

Her first Olympic participation was in 1992 in Albertville . She was then 16 years old. She took part in the 500 m run and finished twelfth there. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , she won gold in the short track over 1000 m and with the 3000 m relay. To run over 500 meters, she finished in 15th place four years later at the games in Nagano could defend both gold medals. She also won the bronze medal in the 500 m.

Between 1995 and 1997 she also won the world championships three times .

Web links

• Chun Lee-kyung in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait of Chun Lee-kyung at www.olympic.org (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Chun is the family name here, Lee-kyung is the first name.