Han Sun-hee
South Korean handball player
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.
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