Lee Da-bin

Lee Da-bin
Lee in 2021
Personal information
NationalitySouth Korean
Born (1996-12-07) 7 December 1996
Ulsan, South Korea
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
CountrySouth Korea
SportTaekwondo
Event73 kg
Korean name
Hangul
이다빈
Revised RomanizationI Da-bin
McCune–ReischauerRi Ta-bin
Updated on 19 September 2018

Lee Da-bin (Korean: 이다빈; born 7 December 1996) is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner. She competes for South Korea mainly in middleweight category at international competitions.

Lee Da-bin represented South Korea at the Asian Games in 2014 and 2018. She clinched a gold medal in the women's 62kg event during the 2014 Asian Games. Four years later, she clinched another gold medal in the women's +67kg event defeating Kazakhstani Cansel Deniz during the 2018 Asian Games. She became a world champion in the women's middleweight event at the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships.

She represented South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics which also marked her debut appearance at the Olympics. She qualified to the women's 67 kg event final after a nail biting last second win over Britain's Bianca Walkden. She lost the gold medal match to Serbia's Milica Mandic in the women's 67kg taekwondo event.

She won the silver medal in the women's middleweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2023, she competed in the women's middleweight event at the World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.