Lee Yeon-kyung

Lee Yeon-kyung
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  South Korea
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou 100 m hurdles
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Doha 100 m hurdles
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 2005 Incheon 100 m hurdles
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Amman 100 m hurdles

Lee Yeon-kyung (Korean: 이연경; born 15 April 1981) is a South Korean track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres hurdles.

She established herself at national level with back-to-back wins at the South Korean athletics championship from 1998 to 2001.[1] Her first major international medal came at the 2005 Asian Athletics Championships held in Incheon, where she took the silver medal behind China's Su Yiping.[2] The following year she reached the podium at the 2006 Asian Games, taking home the bronze medal in the women's hurdles.[3] Her time of 13.23 seconds in the final was a new South Korean record for the event.[4] She competed at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships and won another bronze while Japan's Mami Ishino took the continental title.[5]

Lee improved her national record in 2010, running a time of 13.12 seconds at the Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting in May.[4] Further progress came at that year's national championships, which she won in a new best of 13 seconds exactly.[6] Her season peaked at the 2010 Asian Games where she pipped Natalya Ivoninskaya, a Kazakh Olympian, to the gold medal in the final and became the first Korean to win the hurdles title at the games.[7]

  1. ^ South Korean Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
  2. ^ Asian Championships, Day Two. IAAF (2005-09-02). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
  3. ^ China's women hurdlers dominate in Doha. Xinhua (2006-12-11). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
  4. ^ a b Jalava, Mirko (2010-05-19). 9.86 World lead for Bolt - Oliver over Robles - Jeter over VCB - Daegu World Challenge meet report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
  5. ^ Asian Championships - Day Three. IAAF (2007-07-28). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
  6. ^ Eder, Larry (2010-06-08). adidas Grand Prix: No Tyson Gay? by alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder. RunBlogRun. Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
  7. ^ Ogunode and Fukushima complete doubles in Guangzhou - Asian Games, Day 5. IAAF (2010-11-26). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.