Lee Hyo-jung

Infobox Korean name
hangul=이효정
hanja=李孝貞
rr=I Hyo-jeong
mr=Yi Hyo-jŏng

Lee Hyo-jung (born 13 January 1981) is a female badminton player from South Korea.

She won the gold medal in badminton mixed doubles at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics with her partner, Lee Yong-dae. Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Yong-dae were unseeded and in the finals they beat the #1 seeds and world champions, LILIYANA / WIDIANTO Nova (INA), 21-11 , 21-17. Lee Hyo-jung also won the silver medal in badminton women's doubles at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics with her partner, Lee Kyung-won; they were seeded foruth and lost to the #2 seeded Chinese team, DU Jing / YU Yang.Lee also competed for Korea in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Hwang Yu-mi. [ [http://www.badmintonplanet.com/cgi-bin/news/0504/0490504.html 15 Qualified for Athens in Badminton] , BadmintonPlanet.com, 4 May 2004 (accessed 21 January,2007)] They had a bye in the first round and defeated Cheng Wen-Hsing and Chien Yu Chin of Taiwan in the second. In the quarterfinals, Lee and Hwang lost to Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China 8-15, 15-6, 15-13.

Lee also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Yong-hyun. They had a bye in the first run and were defeated by Jens Eriksen and Mette Schjoldager of Denmark in the round of 16.

ee also

*List of Korea-related topics
*List of Koreans

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