| Medal record | ||
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  South Korea
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| Asian Games | ||
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2010 Guangzhou | 100 m hurdles |
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2006 Doha | 100 m hurdles |
| Asian Championships | ||
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2005 Incheon | 100 m hurdles |
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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. 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. The following year she reached the podium at the 2006 Asian Games, taking home the bronze medal in the women's hurdles. Her time of 13.23 seconds in the final was a new South Korean record for the event. She competed at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships and won another bronze while Japan's Mami Ishino took the continental title.
Lee improved her national record in 2010, running a time of 13.12 seconds at the Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting in May. Further progress came at that year's national championships, which she won in a new best of 13 seconds exactly. 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.
References
- South Korean Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
- Asian Championships, Day Two. IAAF (2005-09-02). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
- China's women hurdlers dominate in Doha. Xinhua (2006-12-11). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
- ^ 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.
- Asian Championships - Day Three. IAAF (2007-07-28). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
- Eder, Larry (2010-06-08). adidas Grand Prix: No Tyson Gay? by alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder. RunBlogRun. Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
- Ogunode and Fukushima complete doubles in Guangzhou - Asian Games, Day 5. IAAF (2010-11-26). Retrieved on 2010-12-10.
External links
| Asian Games champions in women's sprint hurdles | |
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| 1951–1966: 80 metres hurdles • 1970–present: 100 metres hurdles |
- 1981 births
- Living people
- South Korean female hurdlers
- Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
- Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- 21st-century South Korean sportswomen