Lee Ho-suk

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Lee Ho-suk Short track
nation Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
birthday June 25, 1986
place of birth SeoulSouth KoreaKorea SouthSouth Korea 
size 168 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 4 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 9 × gold 6 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings 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
ISU 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ISU profile , accessed February 24, 2014