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Lee Hae-gon

South Korean para table tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Lee Hae-gon (Korean: 이해곤, born 8 October 1953[4][5]) is a South Korean retired para table tennis player. He has medalled at every Paralympic Games from 1988 to 2008, for a total of seven gold, one silver, and four bronze medals.[1]

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Lee, the seventh of eight children in a poor family, enlisted in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps in 1971.[6] The Marine Corps had created a special force to infiltrate North Korea following the Blue House raid, and Lee and other recruits underwent harsh training in Manisan. During one night training session in July 1973,[6] he fell off a cliff and sustained a spinal cord injury. He spent six years in bed, before a missionary persuaded him to try table tennis for rehabilitation.[1]

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