Nationality South Korea Event(s) Marathon Sport Athletics | Weight 61 kg (134 lb) Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 ⁄2 in) Name Lee Myong-seung | |
Born 14 August 1979 (age 44) ( 1979-08-14 ) Seoul, South Korea Club Samsung Electronics Athletic
Club | ||
Lee Myong-Seung (also Lee Myeong-Seung, Korean: 이 명승; born August 14, 1979 in Seoul) is a South Korean marathon runner. He set a personal best time of 2:13:25, by finishing ninth at the 2010 Seoul International Marathon. In the same year, he achieved his best career result with a fourth-place finish at the Gyeongju International Marathon, clocking at 2:16:19.
Lee made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed forty-first out of a hundred runners in the marathon, with a time of 2:21:01.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Lee qualified for the second time in the men's marathon, along with his teammates Kim Yi-Yong and Lee Bong-Ju. He successfully finished the race in eighteenth place by seven seconds ahead of Finland's Janne Holmen, posting his best Olympic career time of 2:14:37.