Lee Chang-hwan

Lee Chang-hwan
nation	South Korea
birthday	February 16, 1982
size	178 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Archery
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 4 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×

Lee Chang-hwan ( kor. 이창환 ; born February 16, 1982 in Ansan ) is a former South Korean archer and Olympic champion .

Career

Lee started archery at the age of 11. He made his international debut in 2001.

He immediately won his first major title in 2001 with the team at the World Cup in Beijing . In 2007 he became world champion both individually and with the team, and he achieved another title success in 2009, again with the team. In between he was part of the South Korean delegation at the Asian Games in Doha , where he also won gold with the team.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , he was eliminated from the singles in the round of 16. With the team, which included Im Dong-hyun and Park Kyung-mo in addition to Lee , he became Olympic champion.

Web links

• Lee Chang-hwan at the World Archery Federation
• Lee Chang-hwan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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