Lee Kang-Seok

:"This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee."

Lee Kang-Seok (born 28 February 1985, Uijeongbu, South Korea) is a speed skater from South Korea. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the 500 m. He is the second South Korean person to win a medal in an event outside of short track speedskating, and he has become a representative to show that South Korea is expanding towards cultivating their athletes to excel in sports other than short track speedskating.

On 5 March 2006, Lee won his first World Cup title, winning the 2005/2006 World Cup on the 500 m.A year later, Lee won gold at the World Single Distance Championships in the Utah Olympic Oval, setting a world record time of 34.25 seconds in the second race, the record has been broken since then by Jeremy Wotherspoon on November 9, 2007, with a time of 34.03 seconds.

External links

* [http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/4146 Lee Kang-Seok at SkateResults.com]
* [http://www.fotos.desg.de/athletes.php?showAthletes=all&id=1126 Photos of Kang-Seok Lee]