Han Sun-hee

Han Sun-hee
Personal information
NationalitySouth Korean
Born (1973-06-09) 9 June 1973 (age 53)
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
SportHandball
PositionLeft wing
Current clubRetired
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
–Allianz Life Séoul
2006–2008Hypo Niederösterreich
National team
Years Team
– South Korea
Medal record
Representing  South Korea
Women's handball
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1992 BarcelonaTeam
Silver medal – second place1996 AtlantaTeam
World Championship
Gold medal – first place1995 Austria/Hungary
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place1998 Bangkok
Asian Championship
Gold medal – first place1993 China
Gold medal – first place1995 South Korea
Gold medal – first place1997 Jordan

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. She received a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

In 1995 she was part of the South Korea team that won the 1995 World Championship. At the 1997 World Women's Handball Championship she reached a 5th place with the South Korean team.

She also won a gold medal for South Korea at the 1998 Asian Games.

Between 2006 and 2008 she played for Hypo Niederösterreich in Austria together with her national team colleagues Oh Seong-ok and Cha-youn Kim. 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.

References

  1. ↑ "1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Handball" Archived 2008-08-23 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 23, 2008)
  2. ↑ "1995 World Women's Handball Championship" (PDF). International Handball Federation. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  3. ↑ "WM 1997". Frauenhandball-Archiv (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  4. ↑ 1998 Asian Games results women - Todor66
  5. ↑ "Hypo sign new Korean star". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
  6. ↑ "2007/08 Women's Champions League - MATCH DETAILS". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 27 July 2013.