Lee Gyu Hyuk ( cor. 이규혁 ; March 16, 1978 , Seoul ) is a South Korean speed skater who specializes in sprinting. Four- time world champion in sprint all-around , 2011 world champion at a distance of 500 meters, two-time silver and one-time bronze medalist at world championships at a distance of 500 and 1000 meters, respectively. Four-time champion of the Asian Games (twice won the race at 1000 and 1500 meters). Originally from a skating family: father - Lee Ik Hwan (participant in the 1968 Olympics), younger brother - Lee Kyo Hyun (participant in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics).
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| Original name | box 이규혁 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  The Republic of Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | March 16, 1978 ( 41) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Seoul , Republic of Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specialization | sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 500 meters | 34.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1000 meters | 1: 07.51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1,500 meters | 1: 45.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3000 meters | 3: 54.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5000 meters | 7: 07.61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10,000 meters | 15: 32.67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
At 13, he made his debut at the 1992 Junior World Championships in Warsaw , where he showed the final 21st result. At the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer , in his debut season at the adult level , 15-year-old Lee was 36th at five hundred and 32nd at a distance twice as long .
In 1997, Lee won his first awards , taking silver at a five-hundred-meter distance and bronze at a kilometer as part of the Universiade in Muju . At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Gyu Hyuk was the eighth in a half kilometer race and the 13th in a kilometer race . In the same season, the first victory at the stages of the World Cup came to the Korean.
At the 2001 World Championships in Salt Lake City, Lee stopped a step away from the bronze medal, becoming fourth at a thousand meters, and at five hundred meters he became fifth. At the 2002 Olympics held there , he again became fifth in a half kilometer, and eighth in a kilometer and a half kilometer .
After that, for three seasons, Lee worsened his position in world skates, finding himself in the second ten of the best sprinters in the world. However, at the continental level, he won two "gold" at the 2003 Asian Games in Aomori ( distances of 1000 and 1500 meters ). In the 2005/06 season, he again began to show good results, including fourth place in the world sprint all-around championship , as well as fourth place in the five-hundred-meter race in Olympic Turin .
At the end of the 2000s, the career of Lee Gyu Hyuk came to the fore, who performed especially strongly at distances of 500 and 1000 meters. In the first race, he twice became the silver medalist of the World Championships ( 2008 , 2009 ), in the second - bronze ( 2007 ). Four times he became the world champion in sprint all-around ( 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2011 ).
Links
- SkateResults.com Profile
- Lee Gyu Hyuk - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com