Hong Jeong-Ho (born May 6, 1974 in

Jeju Province Jeju Province, officially Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, is one of the nine provinces of South Korea. The province comprises Jeju Island (; ), formerly transliterated as Cheju or Cheju Do, the country's largest island. It was previously kno ...

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) is a retired

team 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, Olympic and World champion. She is now based in

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and is involved in youth handball and also an expert commentator on TV.

International career

She received gold medal at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

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, playing for the Korean national team."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 23, 2008) She received a silver medal at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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. She received a bronze medal 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 ...

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. In total she played 18 matches in her three Olympic games and scored a total of 77 goals. With her national team she also won the

1995 World Women's Handball Championship The 1995 World Women's Handball Championship took place in Austria and Hungary 5–17 December 1995. It was the only to have 20 teams and the first to have multiple hosts. South Korea won its first title in Vienna. Squads Group stage Group ...

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Club career

During her career she played for the Norwegian club

Bækkelagets SK Bækkelagets Sportsklub is a Norwegian sports club from Bekkelaget in southern Oslo, founded in 1909. The club has sections for skiing (including ski jumping and biathlon), orienteering, handball, football, floorball and track and field athle ...

, Danish club

Slagelse FH Slagelse Dream Team was a handball team from the town of Slagelse, Denmark. It is sometimes referred to as "Slagelse DT", and is the professional first team for the handball club Slagelse Forenede Håndboldklubber (Slagelse FH). The club was cata ...

and Japanese club Omron Handball. She won the

Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup The Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe that won their national cup, and took place every year from 1976 to 2016 (until 1993 organized by IHF instead of EHF). From the 2016–17 season, th ...

in 1998/1999 with

and the

Women's EHF Cup The Women's EHF European League is an annual competition for women's handball clubs of Europe. It is organized by the European Handball Federation, EHF. It is currently the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the ...

with

in 2002/2003. With

she won the Norwegian League in 1998 and with

she won the Danish championship in 2002/2003.

Individual honors

* Top scorer of the

1993 World Women's Handball Championship The 1993 World Women's Handball Championship was the 11th World Championship in women's handball took place in Norway from 24 November to 5 December 1993 and was played between 16 nations. In the final it would be Germany would take home their ...

with 58 goals. * All Star Team, Best Right Back:

* South Korea's top scorer at

with 44 goals

References

1974 births Living people South Korean female handball players Olympic handball players for South Korea Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic silver medalists for South Korea 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 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Expatriate handball players Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Denmark South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Norway South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Japan {{SouthKorea-handball-bio-stub