Lee Ok-sung
Lee Ok-sung medal table |
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South Korea | ||
World Championship | ||
gold | 2005 China | Flyweight |
Asian Championship | ||
gold | 2005 Vietnam | Flyweight |
Korean spelling | |
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Hangeul | 이옥성 |
Revised Romanization |
I ok-seong |
McCune- Reischauer |
Yi Oksŏng |
Lee Ok-sung , also Lee Ok-seong (born February 7, 1981 in Jinju ) is a former South Korean boxer. He became world flyweight champion in 2005.
Career
The 1.72 m tall flyweight (48 to 51 kg) won the 23rd Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City in September 2005 . He beat Pakistani Nauman Karim (24:10), bronze medalist at the 2003 World Cup , in the final . He then started at the 13th World Championships in Mianyang , where he faced Igor Samolenko from Moldova (30:20) in the round of 16 in the preliminary round against Nikolos Isoria from Georgia (26:17), in the quarterfinals against Anwar Junussow from Tajikistan (15: 9), in the semifinals against Rau'Shee Warren from the USA (44:27) and in the final against Andry Laffita from Cuba (33: 22) prevailed and won the gold medal. He also became the first South Korean amateur boxing world champion in 19 years.
In 2008 he started the Asian Olympic qualification in Thailand, where he defeated the starters from Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and China and made it to the final. There he finally lost to Anwar Junussow, whom he had defeated at the 2005 World Cup. Second place gave him the right to start the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . He was able to prevail again in the first fight against the American Rau'Shee Warren (9: 8), but was eliminated in the round of 16 against the Tunisian Walid Cherif (5:11) and thus reached 9th place.
Web links
- Profile at BoxRec
- Lee Ok-sung in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lee, ok-sung |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 이옥성 (Korean, Hangeul); I, Ok-seong (Revised Romanization); Yi, Oksŏng (McCune-Reischauer); Lee, Ok-seong (alternative transcription) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean boxer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 7th February 1981 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jinju , Gyeongsangnam-do |