Han Ho-san

Korean spelling
Hangeul	한호 산
Revised Romanization	Han Ho-san
McCune- Reischauer	Han Hosan
See also : Korean name

Han Ho-san (born April 12, 1939 in Seoul ) is a Korean-German judoka . From 1965 to 2000 he was national trainer in the German Judo Association .

Personal and family

Han Ho-san, son of a building contractor, graduated from high school in Seoul and completed a degree in architecture. In 1963 he continued his studies at the Technical University of Hanover and has lived in Germany ever since. He is married to a Korean woman and has two sons who were born in Germany. In 1974 Han became a German citizen. He lives in Sindorf (Kerpen) . Playing golf is a sporting hobby .

Sports

Judo belt: 9./10. Dan

At the age of 17 he was judo high school master in his country and honored with a trophy from the Korean President. After success in Korea, he took part in the 1961 World Championships in Paris and finished with fifth place in the open class, whereupon he was voted South Korea's Sportsman of the Year . During his studies in Hanover he continued to practice judo and from 1963 to 1965 he was the state trainer of Lower Saxony. From 1965 to 1982 he was head coach of the men's team, from 1982 to 1990 junior coach, then head coach until 1993 and finally coach coordinator until 2000. At the Judo World Championships in 2001 , Han was officially adopted by the association, became an honorary national coach and received the degree of 9th Dan .

Milestones of his work were u. a. the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , the 1968 European Championships in Lausanne and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . Han received a number of awards, such as the Silver Bay Leaf (1967) and the Kuk Min Hun Chang from the South Korean President in 1999 . In May 2004 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Web links

• Tips from the tiger. May 12, 1969 on spiegel.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Han Ho-san in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 4, 2014 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
2. ↑ Judo national trainer terminates contract ( memento of January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on netzeitung.de, accessed on January 3, 2014
3. ↑ He trained Olympic champions on ksta.de, accessed on January 3, 2014

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Han is the family name here, Ho-san is the first name.