Han Sun-hee
South Korean handball player (born 1973)
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Han Sun-Hee (born June 9, 1973) is a South Korean team handball player (left wing) and Olympic champion. She played for the Korean team and received a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.[1] She received a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
| Han Sun-hee | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born | 9 June 1973 | ||
| Nationality | South Korean | ||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left wing | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Retired | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
– | Allianz Life Séoul | ||
2006–2008 | Hypo Niederösterreich | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | ||
– | South Korea | ||
Medal record | |||
In 1995 she was part of the South Korea team that won the 1995 World Championship.[2] At the 1997 World Women's Handball Championship she reached a 5th place with the South Korean team.[3]
She also won a gold medal for South Korea at the 1998 Asian Games.[4]
Between 2006 and 2008 she played for Hypo Niederösterreich in Austria together with her national team colleagues Oh Seong-ok and Cha-youn Kim.[5] Here she won the Austrian Championship and Cup in both seasons, and reached the final of the 2007-08 EHF Women's Champions League, where they lost to Russian Zvezda Zvenigorod.[6]
