Lee Kyung-keun

Korean spelling
Hangeul	이경근
Hanja	李 璟 根
Revised Romanization	Lee Gyeong-geun
McCune- Reischauer	Yi Kyeŏng-kŭn
See also : Korean name

Lee Kyung-keun (born November 7, 1962 ) is a former South Korean judoka . He was Olympic champion in 1988 in the half light weight.

At the 1985 World Championships in Seoul, 1.68 m tall Lee Kyung-keun defeated Andreas Paluschek from the GDR in the quarter-finals and Yoshiyuki Matsuoka from Japan in the semifinals . The final won Yuri Sokolow from the Soviet Union, Lee received the silver medal. The 1986 Asian Games also took place in Seoul. Lee Kyung-keun won the title with a final victory over the Japanese Yosuke Yamamoto .

Lee Kyung-keun's third successful tournament also took place in Seoul. At the Olympic Games in 1988 he won his first two fights against the Yugoslav Dragomir Bečanović and the Argentine Claudio Yafuso by Ippon, in the quarterfinals against the French Bruno Carabetta , Lee had to go the full distance and won by referee decision (yusei-gachi). He defeated the Hungarian Tamás Bujkó in the semifinals in 3:33 minutes. In the final he met Janusz Pawłowski from Poland , Lee won through yusei-gachi.

Web links

• Lee Kyung-keun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 106

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, Kyung-keun is the first name.