Lee Yong-dae, born on 11 September 1988, is a South Korean professional badminton player who was successful in both men's and mixed doubles. He reached world number one with four different partners, and he won 43 Superseries titles, 37 of them in men's doubles, the most of any doubles player in a single discipline. With Yoo Yeon-seong he stayed number one in men's doubles for 117 consecutive weeks. At the 2008 Olympics he and Lee Hyo-jung won the mixed doubles gold medal, becoming the youngest gold medalists in Olympic badminton. He announced his retirement from international play after the 2016 Korean Superseries, returned at the end of 2017 and was inducted into the BWF Badminton Hall of Fame on 9 December 2024.
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Lee was disappointingly knocked out in the first round in Beijing with Jung
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