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李 元 熹 이원희 i won-hui lee won-hee

lee won-hee

lee won-hee -lrb- born july 19 , 1981 -rrb- is a male south korean judoka who won the gold medal in the men 's 66 -- 73 kg division at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , greece .
he also won the gold medal in doha asian games in 2006 and won the world championship in 2003 , in osaka .
he won the 2004 olympics by way of ippon against vitaly makarov of russia with 9 seconds left .
he was leading in the bout anyway , but had secured the win when he went in for drop seio-nage and combined it with ko-ouchi gari to deliver vitaly makarov on to his back with force .
he is arguably one of the best south korean judokas ever to live .
he lost to ki-chun wang in the qualifications for the 2007 world championships in rio de janeiro and 2008 olympics in beijing .
one of his best techniques was tai-otoshi and is still analyzed to this day on his unique style of doing it .
