About Lee Bok-hee
Born 1978. Lee Bok-hee is a South Korean judoka.
Lee Bok-hee (; born December 13, 1978, in Seoul) is a South Korean judoka, who competed in the women's half-middleweight category. She won fourteen medals in her career, including a silver in the 2001 East Asian Games in Osaka, Japan, achieved fifth-place finishes at the 2003 World Judo Championships, and represented her nation South Korea in the 63-kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Lee emerged onto the world stage at the 2001 East Asian Games in Osaka, Japan, where she won a silver medal in the 63-kg division, losing the final by a "yusei" victory to Chinese judoka and 2000 Olympic silver medalist Li Shufang.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Lee qualified for the South Korean squad in the women's half-middleweight class (63 kg), by placing second and receiving a berth from the Asian Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She lost her opening match to Argentina's Daniela Krukower by a golden-score point and a tani otoshi (belt drop) in a close fight. In the repechage, Lee gave herself a chance for an Olympic bronze medal, but slipped it away in a defeat to France's Lucie Décosse, who scored more points than her on waza-ari and threw her down the tatami with a kuchiki taoshi (single leg takedown) assault during their five-minute first round match.
Since her retirement from competition in late 2006, Lee has served and committed as a lifetime coach for her newly-wed husband Choi Sun-ho, who later competed for South Korea in the 90-kg division at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Olympic judoka
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Lee Bok-hee was born on 13 December 1978 in Seoul.
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Lee Bok-hee is South Korean.
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