An Jung-hwa (; born 20 February 1981), also known as An Jeong-Hwa, is a South Korean professional

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player and Olympic medalist, who played on the South Korean national team.

Professional career

In 2006, An participated in the

15th Asian Games The 2006 Asian Games (), officially known as the XV Asiad or 15th Asian Games (, and commonly known as Doha 2006 (), were an Asian multi-sport event held in Doha, Qatar, from December 1 to 15, 2006, with 424 events in 39 sports featured in the ga ...

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, as part of the South Korean national team and won the gold medal. In 2008, she played for Daegu Metropolitan City Hall, a South Korean handball club located in

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

. The same year, An also competed at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

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with the South Korean team. She played as left wing, scored multiple times during the tournament and won the bronze medal.

References

External links

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Handball – Official Results Book
1981 births Living people South Korean female handball players Olympic handball players for South Korea Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games 21st-century South Korean sportswomen Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games gold medalists in handball {{SouthKorea-handball-bio-stub