Lee Dae-hoon

Lee Dae-hoon is a South Korean former taekwondo athlete born in 1992 in Seoul and trained in his father's taekwondo academy from the age of five. He won Asian Games gold in 2010 and 2014, an Olympic silver medal in the 58 kg class at London 2012 after dropping down from bantamweight, and an Olympic bronze medal in the 68 kg class at Rio 2016. He was ranked world number one in the under 68 kg division. After retiring following the 2020 Games he became a coach, now leading the United States national taekwondo team, and has earned a doctorate from Sejong University.