Ahn Jae-hyung
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Hangeul | 안재형 |
| Hanja | 安 宰 亨 |
|
Revised Romanization |
To Jae-hyeong |
|
McCune- Reischauer |
To Chaehyŏng |
Ahn Jae-hyung (born January 8, 1965 ) is a South Korean table tennis player . He won bronze at the 1988 Olympic Games.
successes
From 1983 to 1989 Ahn Jae-hyung took part in all four world championships . In 1987 he reached the semi-finals in doubles with Yoo Nam-kyu and in mixed with Yang Young-ja . A year he had won the Asian Games (Asian Games) with the team.
At the 1988 Summer Olympics , he only appeared in doubles. Here he won the bronze medal with his doubles partner Yoo Nam-kyu.
Private
In 1989, Ahn Jae-hyung married table tennis player Jiao Zhimin , who also took part in the 1988 Olympics and won two medals. Their son An Byeong-hu (born September 17, 1991) devoted himself to the game of golf. In 2009 he was the youngest player to win the American golf championship for amateurs.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | competition | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COR | Asian Championship ATTU | 1988 | Niigata | JPN | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| COR | Asian Championship ATTU | 1986 | Shenzhen | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| COR | Asian Cup | 1989 | Beijing | CHN | 11 | |||
| COR | Asian Cup | 1987 | Seoul | COR | 5 | |||
| COR | Asian Cup | 1984 | New Delhi | IND | 5 | |||
| COR | Asian Games | 1986 | Seoul | COR | Semifinals | 1 | ||
| COR | Olympic games | 1988 | Seoul | COR | no participants | bronze | ||
| COR | World Championship | 1989 | Dortmund | FRG | last 32 | last 16 | last 32 | 5 |
| COR | World Championship | 1987 | New Delhi | IND | last 32 | Semifinals | Semifinals | 9 |
| COR | World Championship | 1985 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 64 | last 16 | last 64 | 9 |
| COR | World Championship | 1983 | Tokyo | JPN | last 64 | last 64 | last 64 | 7th |
Web links
- Ahn Jae-hyung in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed June 3, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ ITTF statistics ( memento from October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 3, 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahn, Jae-hyung |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 안재형 (Hangeul); 安 宰 亨 (Hanja); An, Jae-hyeong (revised romanization); An, Chaehyŏng (McCune-Reischauer) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1965 |