When did Lee Yong dae join the badminton team?
He joined the national badminton team of South Korea in 2003, at the age of 15 years. Lee participated in the OCBC/Yonex US Open, where he played in both the singles and doubles category. In both events, he was ousted in the second round.
What was the last tournament Lee Yong dae won?
Lee and Yoo were the top seeds of the premier event but they lost out in the quarter finals. Lee played his last tournament alongside Yoo at Korea Open and was the winners. Lee has a total of 793 career wins over the men’s singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles events.
Who is a badminton player from South Korea?
Lee Yong-dae is a male South Korean badminton player and a veteran Doubles player in the badminton circuit. He was born on September 11, 1988 in Gwangju, South Korea. He was a specialist in doubles category.
Who was the youngest badminton player to win a gold medal?
However, Lee and Lee Hyo-jung upset the badminton world and went on to get the gold medal in mixed doubles, becoming the youngest gold medalists in Olympic badminton . Lee Yong-dae started the year brightly when he and Jung Jae-sung won the Malaysia Open.
How many doubles titles did Lee Yong dae win?
He reached world number 1 ranking with 4 different partners, Jung Jae-sung, Ko Sung-hyun and Yoo Yeon-seong in men’s doubles, and Lee Hyo-jung in mixed doubles. He won a total of 43 Superseries titles, 37 in the men’s doubles, the most of any doubles player in one discipline, and 6 in mixed doubles.
What did Lee Yong dae win in Malaysia?
Lee Yong-dae started the year brightly when he and Jung Jae-sung won the Malaysia Open. In the Korea Open Super Series, Lee won the mixed doubles title with Lee Hyo-jung, while he and Jung reached the final. However, as Jung had to join the military service for two months, Lee paired with Shin Baek-cheol for the German Open and claimed the title.