Lee Ho-suk

Lee Ho-suk
nation	South Korea
birthday	June 25, 1986
place of birth	Seoul ,  South Korea
size	168 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 4 × 0 × World Cup medals 9 × 6 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin 5000 m relay silver 2006 Turin 1000 m silver 2006 Turin 1500 m silver 2010 Vancouver 1000 m silver 2010 Vancouver 5000 m relay  Short track world championships silver 2006 Minneapolis All-around silver 2006 Minneapolis 1000 m silver 2006 Minneapolis 1500 m bronze 2006 Minneapolis All-around gold 2008 Gangneung 1000 m gold 2008 Gangneung 5000 m relay silver 2008 Gangneung All-around silver 2008 Gangneung 1500 m gold 2009 Vienna All-around gold 2009 Vienna 1000 m gold 2009 Vienna 1500 m silver Vienna 2009 500 m gold 2010 Sofia All-around gold 2010 Sofia 1000 m gold 2010 Sofia 3000 m gold 2010 Sofia 5000 m relay bronze 2010 Sofia 1500 m bronze 2012 Shanghai 5000 m relay

Lee Ho-suk ( kor. 이호석 ; born June 25, 1986 in Seoul ) is a South Korean short tracker and Olympic champion .

Career

He was all-around winner at the Short Track Junior World Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005. At the 2006 Winter Olympics , Lee won a gold medal with the 5000 m relay. He also won two silver medals. He also won two silver medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he replaced the injured Noh Jin-kyu and finished second with the 5000 m relay in the B final, which meant seventh place, although he was only used in the semifinals.

Personal best

Lee Ho-suk currently has the following personal bests on the short track (as of 2014):

• 500 m: 41.269 s ( Vancouver , Canada, February 26, 2010)
• 1,000 m: 1: 23.801 min (Vancouver, Canada, February 20, 2010)
• 1,500 m: 2: 12.439 min ( Sofia , Bulgaria, February 7, 2009)
• 3,000 m: 4: 50.114 min ( Vienna , Austria, March 9, 2009)

Web links

• Profile on sochi2014.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ ISU profile , accessed February 24, 2014

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, Ho-suk is the first name.