Lee Jung-su

Lee Jung-su
nation	South Korea
birthday	30th November 1989 (age 30)
Career
National squad	since 2008
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 2 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver 1500 m gold 2010 Vancouver 1000 m silver 2010 Vancouver 5000 m relay  Short track world championships gold 2009 Heerenveen team gold 2010 Bormio team gold 2010 Sofia 5000 m relay bronze 2012 Shanghai 5000 m relay  Short track junior world championships gold 2007 Mladá Boleslav Season silver 2007 Mladá Boleslav All-round gold 2008 Bolzano Season silver 2008 Bolzano All-round
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup October 17, 2008  World Cup victories 14 (including 10 individual wins)  1000 m world cup 1st ( 2009/10 )  1500 m world cup 1st (2009/10)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 meters 2 3 2  1500 meters 7th 2 4th  3000 meters 1 0 0  Relay / team 4th 3 5
last change: December 26th, 2017 1 Only overall, no track wins

Lee Jung-su (born November 30, 1989 in Seoul ) is a South Korean short tracker .

Career

Lee started for the first time in January 2006 at the Junior World Championships in Miercurea Ciuc international, where he immediately won two silver medals in the 1500 m and 1000 m. He also qualified for the super final of the best athletes, in which he won. A year later in Mladá Boleslav, Lee did very successfully at the Junior World Championships by winning two races, second overall and junior world champion with the relay. Nevertheless, the South Korean Association did not nominate him for the Short Track World Cup the following season , so he only took part in the Junior World Championship, which he finished in second place for the second time in a row. As in the previous year, he also triumphed with the relay. However, Lee did not make the jump into the most important competition series until October 2008, when he celebrated his first World Cup start in the 2008/09 season . He achieved three victories in his first four individual starts, two in the 1,500 meter distance and the third in the 1,000 m. He also won once with the relay, so that after six races by November 2008 there were already four World Cup victories. Another victory over 1500 m and second places with the relay in Nagano and Dresden followed in Nagano . At the World Cup in Sofia he finished second and third each over 1000 m. He finished the season in third place in the World Cup over 1000 m and in second place in the World Cup over 1500 m.

In the 2009/10 season Lee took five wins, three times with the relay and once each over 1000 m and 1500 m. He also took second place three times and third place twice, winning the world cups over 1000 m and 1500 m. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Lee won the opening competition over 1500 m. He set a new Olympic record in the run-up, which he improved again in the semifinals. In the final it looked like a triple victory for South Korea; Lee Jung-su's teammates Lee Ho-suk and Sung Si-bak , however, brought each other down and lost their chances for a medal. The 20-year-old escaped this fall and became Ahn Hyun-soo's successor as Olympic champion over this distance. At the team world championships 2009 in Heerenveen and at the team world championships 2010 in Bormio he won the gold medal. In March 2010 he won the gold medal with the relay at the 2010 World Championships in Sofia . After third places in Salt Lake City over 1500 m and with the relay at the beginning of the 2011/12 season, he won over 1500 m in Moscow and took third place with the relay in Dordrecht . At the season highlight of the 2012 World Championships in Shanghai , he won the bronze medal with the relay. In the 2014/15 season he finished in the top ten five times in World Cup singles. He took third place over 1500 m in Salt Lake City and first place in Seoul over 3000 m and reached fifth place in the World Cup over 1500 m at the end of the season. At the 2015 World Championships in Moscow, he finished fourth in the relay. His best placement in the 2015/16 season in the World Cup was third in the 1500 m in Dordrecht.

After third place in the relay in Calgary and second place over 1500 m in Salt Lake City at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, Lee triumphed in Shanghai and Gangneung over 1500 m and finished second in the World Cup over 1500 m at the end of the season. He also finished third in the relay in Shanghai. At the Winter Asian Games 2017 in Sapporo , he won the bronze medal in the 1500 m and the silver medal with the relay. His best result at the 2017 World Championships in Rotterdam was eighth place with the relay and over 1000 m.

Like several other short trackers on the South Korean team, Lee studied at DanKook University .

World Cup victories

singles

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	October 19, 2008	Salt Lake City	1500 m
2.	October 26, 2008	Vancouver	1000 m
3.	October 26, 2008	Vancouver	1500 m
4th	December 6, 2008	Nagano	1500 m
5.	September 19, 2009	Beijing	1000 m
6th	November 15, 2009	Marquette	1500 m
7th	4th February 2012	Moscow	1500 m
8th.	December 21, 2014	Seoul	3000 m
9.	December 10, 2016	Shanghai	1500 m
10.	17th December 2016	Gangneung	1500 m

Season

No.	date	place
1.	October 19, 2008	Salt Lake City 1
2.	September 20, 2009	Beijing 2
3.	September 27, 2009	Seoul 2
4th	November 8, 2009	Montreal 3
1With Sung Si-bak , Lee Ho-suk and Kwak Yoon-gy . 2With Kim Seoung-il , Lee Ho-suk and Kwak Yoon-gy. 3 With Kim Seoung-il, Sung Si-bak and Kwak Yoon-gy.

Personal bests

• 500 m 41.245 sec. (installed on December 14, 2014 in Shanghai)
• 1000 m 1: 23.747 min. (installed on February 20, 2010 in Vancouver)
• 1500 m 2: 08.646 min. (installed on November 13, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m 4: 41.954 min. (installed on March 27, 2010 in Bormio)

Web links

• Biography Lee Jung-Su on sportresult.com
• Results from 2006 on the-sports.org
• Lee Jung-su on Cyworld

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, Jung-su is the first name.