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Lee Hyo-jung
Hangul	이효정
Hanja	李孝貞
Revised Romanization	I Hyo-jeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Hyo-jŏng

	Olympic medal record
Competitor for South Korea
Women's badminton

**Lee Hyo-jung**
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Personal information
Birth name	이효정
Date of birth	January 13, 1981 (age 28)
Place of birth	Seoul
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in)
Women's/Mixed doubles
Country	South Korea
Years active	1999-present
Handedness	Right
Highest Ranking	1
Current Ranking	1 (August 27, 2009)
BWF Profile

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee (이 or 李).

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 top seeds and 2005 and 2007 world champions Lilyana Natsir and Nova Widhianto of Indonesia, 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 fourth and lost to the second-seeded Chinese pair, Du Jing and Yu Yang.

Lee also competed for Korea in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Hwang Yu-mi.^[1] 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.

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[edit] References

^ 15 Qualified for Athens in Badminton, BadmintonPlanet.com, 4 May 2004 (accessed 21 January 2007)

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[0] 15 Qualified for Athens in Badminton, BadmintonPlanet.com, 4 May 2004 (accessed 21 January 2007)

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