| Lee Yun-Seo | |
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 Lee at the 2023 World Championships | |
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Country represented |
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Born |
March 5 2003 |
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Years on National Team |
2017-present |
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Club |
Seoul Physical Education High School |
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Coach(es) |
Kang Ki-Cheol, Lee Jung-Sik |
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Current status |
Active |
Lee Yun-Seo (Hangul: 이윤서; born March 5 in Seoul) is an elite South Korean gymnast and 2020 Olympian. She is the daughter of former Korean MAG gymnast Lee Jong and younger sister of Korean MAG reserve gymnast Lee Jangwon. She has also represented South Korea at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and 2019 and 2021 World Championships.
Junior Career[]
2017-2018[]
Lee made her international debut at the Asian Championships, winning team and floor exercise bronze, and placing fourth in the all-around and sixth on balance beam. She sustained an ankle injury afterwards and had to rest for two months.[1]
She returned to competition the following year at the Junior Asian Championships, winning uneven bars silver and team, all-around, and floor exercise bronze. She was named to represent South Korea at the Youth Olympic Games, where she placed fifth on bars and thirteenth in the all-around.
Senior Career[]
2019[]
Lee made her senior international debut at the American Cup in March, placing ninth. She later competed at the Tokyo World Cup in April, placing seventh. She was named to the South Korean team for the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. She placed twenty-eighth in qualifications, qualifying as the first reserve for the all-around, and additionally qualified individually to the 2020 Olympics. She finished her season at the Toyota International in Japan in December, winning silver on uneven bars, bronze on balance beam, and placing eighth on floor exercise.
2021[]
Lee missed the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She returned to competition at the Tokyo Olympics a year later. She competed in the fifth subdivision, starting on vault. She placed twenty-ninth in qualifications, advanced to the all-around final, where she placed twenty-first. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, placing thirteenth in the all-around.
2022[]
In June, Lee competed at the Asian Championships in Doha, Qatar. She helped South Korea win silver in the team final, which qualified a full team to the World Championships in Liverpool in the fall. Individually, she won all-around, uneven bars, and floor exercise bronze, and placed fourth on balance beam. In October, at the World Championships, she placed seventeenth in the all-around.
2023[]
Lee began her season at the City of Jesolo Trophy in early April, winning team silver and uneven bars bronze. In June, she competed at the Asian Championships, winning team and uneven bars silver, and placing fourth in the all-around and sixth on floor exercise. South Korea's second place finish qualified them a full team to the World Championships. At the World Championships in Belgium, she helped South Korea place eleventh in qualifications, which qualified them a full team to the Olympics, and placed nineteenth in the all-around.
Medal Count[]
| Year | Event | TF | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2017 | Bangkok Asian Championships | 3rd | 4 | 6 | 3rd | ||
| 2018 | Junior Asian Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | ||
| Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games | 13 | 5 | |||||
| 2019 | American Cup | 9 | |||||
| Tokyo World Cup | 7 | ||||||
| Toyota International | 2nd | 3rd | 8 | ||||
| 2021 | Tokyo Olympic Games | 21 | |||||
| Kitakyushu World Championships | 13 | ||||||
| 2022 | Doha Asian Championships | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 4 | 3rd | |
| Liverpool World Championships | 17 | ||||||
| 2023 | City of Jesolo Trophy | 2nd | 3rd | ||||
| Kallang Asian Championships | 2nd | 4 | 2nd | 6 | |||
| Antwerp World Championships | 19 |