Chaeun Lee

Chaeun Lee, also credited in eastern name order as Lee Chaeun or Lee Chae-un, is a South Korean snowboarder.
He won a gold medal at the FIS Freestyle Ski and [Snowboarding World Championships 2023] in the halfpipe.

Career

Lee competed in the Snowboarding at the [2022 Winter Olympics – Men's halfpipe|men's halfpipe] in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at just 15 years old, making him the youngest male athlete at the Beijing Games.
In 2023, Lee won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding [World Championships 2023] in Bakuriani, Georgia. The 16-year-old was the first South Korean to win a gold medal in any skiing or snowboarding discipline and also the youngest male snowboard gold medalist in world championship history.
At the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon Province, South Korea, Lee grabbed two gold medals in snowboard the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Men's slopestyle|men's slopestyle] and Snowboarding at the [2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Men's halfpipe|halfpipe]. He became the first South Korean to win a gold medal in snowboarding at any Winter Olympic competition.
Lee took men's snowboard slopestyle gold at the Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games. Lee scored 90.00 points with a triple cork 1440 on his third run to claim gold in the men's snowboard slopestyle final.