Lee Won-Hee

Who is Lee Won-Hee?

Lee Won-Hee is a male South Korean Judoka who won the gold medal in the men's 66–73 kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He also won the gold medal in Doha Asian Games in 2006 and won the World championship in 2003, in Osaka. He won the 2004 Olympics by way of Ippon against Vitaly Makarov of Russia with 9 seconds left. He was leading in the bout anyways, but had secured the win when he went in for Drop Seio-Nage and combined it with Ko-Ouchi Gari to deliver Vitaly Makarov on to his back with force. He is arguably one of the best South Korean judokas ever to live. He lost to Ki-Chun Wang in the qualifications for the 2007 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro and 2008 Olympics in Beijing. One of his best techniques was Tai-Otoshi and is still analyzed to this day on his unique style of doing it.