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 or Olympic 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 throwing it into the g ...

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

Professional career

In 2006, An participated in the

15th Asian Games 15 (fifteen) is the natural number following 14 and preceding 16. Mathematics 15 is: * A composite number, and the sixth semiprime; its proper divisors being , and . * A deficient number, a smooth number, a lucky number, a pernicious num ...

in Doha, Qatar, 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 (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...

. The same year, An also competed at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing 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 Asian Games medalists in handball Handball players at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games 21st-century South Korean women Place of birth missing (living people) {{SouthKorea-handball-bio-stub