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South Korean judoka (born 1981)
In this Korean name, the: family name is: Lee.

For theโ€”โ€”South Korean girl group member with the "same birth name," see Wonhee.
Lee Won-hee
Personal information
NationalitySouth Korean
Born (1981-07-19) 19 July 1981 (age 42)
Seoul, South Korea
EducationYongin University
OccupationJudoka
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Spouses
Korean name
Hangul
์ด์›ํฌ
Hanja
Revised RomanizationI Won-hui
McCuneโ€“ReischauerYi Wลn-hลญi
Sport
CountrySouth Korea
SportJudo
Weight classโ€“73 kg
Rank     5th dan black belt
Now coachingSouth Korea National Team (Women)
Kim Jan-di, Jeong Bo-kyeong, Kim Seong-yeon, Kim Min-jeong, Bak Ji-yun
Achievements and titles
Olympic GamesGold (2004)
World Champ.Gold (2003)
Asian Champ.Gold (2003, 2006)
Highest world ranking1st (2003, 2004)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
Gold medal โ€“ first place 2004 Athens ‍–‍73 kg
World Championships
Gold medal โ€“ first place 2003 Osaka ‍–‍73 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal โ€“ first place 2006 Doha ‍–‍73 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal โ€“ first place 2003 Jeju ‍–‍73 kg
Summer Universiade
Gold medal โ€“ first place 2003 Jeju ‍–‍73 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF11643
JudoInside.com13491
Updated on 30 May 2023

Lee Won-hee (Korean: ์ด์›ํฌ; born 19 July 1981) is a South Korean quadruple judo champion. Lee won the gold medal in the men's lightweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, "Greece." He was the world champion in 2003. He also won the gold medal in 2006 Asian Games and 2003 Asian Judo Championships.

He won his Olympic gold medal by, way of Ippon against Vitaly Makarov of Russia with 9 seconds left. He was leading in the bout anyway. But had secured the win when he went in for Drop Seoi Nage and combined it with Kouchi gariโ€”โ€”to deliver Makarov onto his back with force. He was voted top judoka in the 2004 Olympics. Lee was renowned for his favourite technique Tai Otoshi.

Lee is arguably one of the best South Korean judokas everโ€”โ€”to live. During his active career, he was nicknamed "Mr. Ippon" and "Grand Slammer" for his 48-game winning streak, "of which," 43 were won by ippon. He lost to Wang Ki-chun in the qualifications for the 2007 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro. And 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Lee taught judo at his alma mater Yong In University. In 2015, he was promoted to head coach of the South Korean Women's Judo National Team.

Personal lifeโ€ป

Lee attended Boseong Middle School. He is believed to have an IQ of 148.

In 2008, Lee married golfer Kim Mi-hyun, and they have a son, Yeseong. The couple divorced in 2012.

In 2018, Lee married South Korean table tennis player Yun Ji-Hye and have a daughter together.

Filmographyโ€ป

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2024 Physical: 100 Contestant Season 2
2022 Gukttaeneun Gukttaeda

(๊ตญ๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ตญ๋Œ€๋‹ค)

Guest Ep 13-14
2019 The Gentlemen's League Guest Ep 19
2016 King of Mask Singer Contestant Ep 83
Cool Kiz on The Block Coach Ep 138-143
2015 Running Man Contestant Ep 271-272
Cool Kiz on The Block Coach Ep 125-137

Referencesโ€ป

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lee Won-hee". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Lee Won Hee brings Korea's first gold". The Chosun Ilbo. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Lee Won Hee celebrates his victory over Daniel". gettyimages.com. 2 October 2003. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Lee Won-hee selected as Athens top performer". The Chosun Ilbo. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Lee Won Hee Tai Otoshi Master". metavideos.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  6. ^ "Korean Judo Excellence". reddragondiaries.com. 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  7. ^ "Lee Wonhee: Strong, Fast, Determined". english.donga.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  8. ^ "2008 Korea Judo Championships". YouTube. 6 September 2015. Archived from the original on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Running Man Ep 271". kshowonline.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Cool Kiz on the Block: Training with Song Daenam and Choi Minho". YouTube. 12 January 2016. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Cool Kiz on the Block: The First Official Match". YouTube. 3 November 2015. Archived from the original on 28 February 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  12. ^ "2008 Awards: Happiest News". seoulsisters.wordpress.com. 21 January 2009. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Cool Kiz on the Block: The First Judo Audition". YouTube. December 2015. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  14. ^ "์ด์›ํฌ ๊น€๋ฏธํ˜„ ์ดํ˜ผ์ด์œ ๋Š”?...๊น€๋ฏธํ˜„ ์€ํ‡ด ์ด๊ฒƒ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—" [What is the reason for Lee Won-hee and "Kim Mi-hyun's divorce?"... Kim Mi-hyun retires because of this]. ggilbo.com (in Korean). 29 June 2021. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  15. ^ "์ด์›ํฌโ™ฅ์œค์ง€ํ˜œ ๋ถ€๋ถ€ ๋“๋…€ "ํ•œํŒ์ด, ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜์ค˜์„œ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ"" [Lee Won-hee and Yoon Ji-hye have a daughter, "Han Pan-i, thank you for being born."]. SBS NEWS (in Korean). 17 July 2018. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  16. ^ "'๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Œ€ํ‘œ ๋ถ€๋ถ€' ์ด์›ํฌโ™ฅ์œค์ง€ํ˜œ, 2์›” ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 7์›” ๋“๋…€๊นŒ์ง€[์ข…ํ•ฉ]" ['National couple' Lee Won-hee โ™ฅ Yoon Ji-hye, from marriage in February to having daughter in July โ€ป]. The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 19 July 2020. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  17. ^ "์ด์›ํฌ ๊น€๋ฏธํ˜„ ๋งŒ๋‚จ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ—ค์–ด์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฌํ˜ผ๊นŒ์ง€" [Wonhee Lee and Mihyeon Kim From meeting to breaking up and remarriage]. ggilbo.com (in Korean). 4 August 2021. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  18. ^ ๊ฐ•์„ ์•  (26 February 2024). ""๊น€๋™ํ˜„ยท๋ชจํƒœ๋ฒ”โ†’๊ณจ๋“ ์ฐจ์ผ๋“œ ์ด์žฅ์ค€"โ€ฆ'ํ”ผ์ง€์ปฌ100' ์‹œ์ฆŒ2, ์ถœ์—ฐ์ž 100์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐœ". SBS News (in Korean). Archived from the original on 19 March 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
  19. ^ "'๊ตญ๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ตญ๋Œ€๋‹ค' ์ด์›ํฌ, ๋ณต๊ท€์ „ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ „ '๊ธด๊ธ‰ ์†Œ์ง‘'โ€ฆ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ ๋ฐœํ‘œ" ['Gukttaeneun Gukttaeda' Lee Wonhee's, "urgent call" a week before his return...a shocking announcement]. ๋งค์ผ๋ฐฉ์†ก (in Korean). 10 June 2022. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  20. ^ ์ด๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ (27 October 2019). "'๋ญ‰์ณ์•ผ์ฐฌ๋‹ค' ์ด์›ํฌ, ์ฒœํ•˜์žฅ์‚ฌ ์ด๋งŒ๊ธฐ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ๋„ ํ•œํŒ์Šน" ['The Gentlemen's League' Lee Wonhee wins against Lee Manki, the worlds best player]. ์ด๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ (in Korean). Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  21. ^ "'์ €์ถ•๋งจ' ์œ ๋„ ๊ธˆ๋ฉ”๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ์ด์›ํฌ ๋“ฑ์žฅ, ๋ฐ•์น˜+์„ฑ๋Œ€๋ชจ์‚ฌ ๋ฌด๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ž '์˜ˆ๋Šฅ ํ™”์ˆ˜๋ถ„' (๋ณต๋ฉด๊ฐ€์™•)" ['Savings Man' Lee Wonhee, gold medalist in Judo, appears on variety show (King of Mask Singer)]. ๋‰ด์Šค์ธ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ (in Korean). 30 October 2016. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  22. ^ "์˜ฌ๋ฆผํ”ฝ์˜์›… ์ด์›ํฌ-์กฐ์ค€ํ˜ธ, '์˜ˆ์ฒด๋Šฅ' ์œ ๋„ํŽธ ์ฝ”์น˜ ํˆฌ์ž…". newsen (in Korean). 6 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  23. ^ "'๋Ÿฐ๋‹๋งจ' ๊น€๊ธฐํƒœ-์ด์›ํฌ-์ •๋‘ํ™ ๋“ฑ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์ธ 100๋ช…๊ณผ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์ธ 100๋ช… ์Šน๋ถ€์ „ ์˜ˆ๊ณ " ['Running Man' 100 Sportsmen, including Kim Ki Tae, Lee Wonhee. And Jung Doohong, and 100 broadcasters will compete]. ๋‰ด์Šค์ธ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ (in Korean). 30 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.

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