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Chaeun Lee
South Korean snowboarder (born 2006) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chaeun Lee (Korean: 이채운; born April 11, 2006), also credited in eastern name order as Lee Chaeun or Lee Chae-un, is a South Korean snowboarder. He won a gold medal at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2023 in the halfpipe.
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Career
Lee competed in the men's halfpipe in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at just 15 years old, making him the youngest male athlete at the Beijing Games.[1]
In 2023, Lee won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2023 in Bakuriani, Georgia. The 16-year-old was the first South Korean to win a gold medal in any skiing or snowboarding discipline and also the youngest male snowboard gold medalist in world championship history.[2][3]
At the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon Province, South Korea, Lee grabbed two gold medals in snowboard men's slopestyle and halfpipe.[4][5] He became the first South Korean to win a gold medal in snowboarding at any Winter Olympic competition.
Lee took men's snowboard slopestyle gold at the Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games. Lee scored 90.00 points with a triple cork 1440 on his third run to claim gold in the men's snowboard slopestyle final.[6]
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