Lee Hye-jin

Lee Hye-jin
	Lee Hye-jin - Keirin World Championship silver (2020)
To person
Date of birth	January 23, 1992
nation	South Korea
discipline	Train (short term)
Most important successes
	Asian Championships 2015 - team sprint 2017 - team sprint
	Last updated: August 30, 2020

Lee Hye-jin (born January 23, 1992 ) is a South Korean track cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines.

Athletic career

In 2010, Lee Hye-jin became Junior World Champion in the 500-meter time trial . Since then she has been on the podium several times at the Asian championships of the elite team sprint , with various partners. At the Olympic Games in London , she started in the team sprint, sprint and keirin. In 2015 she became the Asian team sprint champion together with Choi Seul-gi .

In 2016, Lee was nominated to start in the keirin at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished eighth. The following year she was Asian champion in the team sprint with Woong Gyeom-kim . In 2019 she won the Keirin competition at the World Cup in Cambridge . At the UCI Track World Championships 2020 in Berlin, she won the silver medal in her favorite discipline.