Lee Dae-Hoon

Lee Dae-hoon

Lee at the 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1992-02-05) February 5, 1992 (age 25) Seoul, South Korea
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
Sport	Taekwondo
Club	Yongin University
Medal record Representing  South Korea Olympic Games 2012 London 58 kg 2016 Rio De Janeiro 68 kg World Championships 2011 Gyeongju 63 kg 2013 Puebla 63 kg Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou 63 kg 2014 Incheon 63 kg Asian Championships 2012 Ho Chi Minh City 58 kg 2014 Tashkent 63 kg

Lee Dae-Hoon (Hangul: 이대훈; Korean pronunciation: [i.dɛ̝.ɦun]; born February 5, 1992) is a South Korean Taekwondo practitioner.

Lee grew up practicing martial art at his father's taekwondo academy from age 5.

He won gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, and repeated his success at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.

Originally a bantamweight (under 63 kg), Lee temporarily went down in weight to flyweight (under 58 kg) after the 2011 World Championships in order to compete in the 2012 Olympics, where there were only four weight classes. Lee made his international flyweight debut at the 2011 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan where he had his first international loss to 2008 Olympic silver medalist Gabriel Mercedes 14-12 in the semifinals. In May 2012, however, he captured his first flyweight gold medal at the 2012 Asian Taekwondo Championships, beating reigning Asian flyweight champion Pen-Ek Karaket 8-4 in the final bout. In 2016 Summer Olympics Lee captured bronze medal beating Jaouad Achab from Belgium 11-7.In 2016 WTF World Taekwondo Grand-Prix, Lee won gold against Konstantin Minin.