Lee Seung-hoon

Lee Seung-hoon, born on 6 March 1988, is a South Korean speed skater. He began as a short track skater, winning the 2008 World Championship 3000 m super-final and three golds at the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, but failed to make the national short track team in April 2009 and switched to long track that September. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver he finished second in the 5000 metres in 6:16.95, behind Sven Kramer, and won the 10000 metres after Kramer was disqualified for skating in the wrong lane, the first Asian man to win an Olympic medal in a long distance event. He later won mass start gold at the 2016 World Championships in Kolomna and at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and bronze in the mass start at the 2022 Winter Olympics. He is close friends with Mo Tae-bum and Lee Sang-hwa, and retired from international competition in October 2025 after failing to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympics.