Lee Ok-sung

Lee Ok-sung medal table
Boxing
South Korea
World Championship
gold	2005 China	Flyweight
Asian Championship
gold	2005 Vietnam	Flyweight

Korean spelling
Hangeul	이옥성
Revised Romanization	I ok-seong
McCune- Reischauer	Yi Oksŏng
See also : Korean name

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)

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, Ok-sung is the first name.