Competitive Taekwondo Career
Lee is a nine-time US National Champion (1979–1987), a 10-time US National Team Member (1979–1987, 1989), and has won medals at the World Taekwondo Championships, World Games, International Collegiate Taekwondo Championships, Pan American Games, and Pan American Taekwondo Championships. His competition record includes:
- 1989: US Taekwondo Team Trials (Fin): gold
- 1988: US Taekwondo Team Trials (Fin): silver
- 1987: World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; Pan American Games (Fin): gold; US Taekwondo Team Trials (Fin): gold; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1986: World Cup Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1985: World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): silver; World Games Taekwondo (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1984: Pan American Taekwondo Championships (Fly): gold; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fly): gold
- 1983: International Collegiate Taekwondo Championships (Fin): gold; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1982: Pan American Taekwondo Championships (Fin): gold; World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1981: World Games Taekwondo (Fin): silver; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1980: AAU Tae Kwon Do National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1979: World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
- 1977: US Taekwondo National Championships (Fly): bronze
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