Hyun Jung-hwa

Korean spelling
Hangeul	현정화
Hanja	玄 静 和
Revised Romanization	Hyeon Jeong-hwa
McCune- Reischauer	Hyŏn Chŏnghwa
See also : Korean name

Hyun Jung-hwa (born October 6, 1969 in Busan , South Korea ) is a former table tennis player , four-time world champion and Olympic champion.

Between 1987 and 1993, Hyun Jung-hwa took part in all four world championships . In 1987 she won the doubles title with Yang Young-ja . In 1989 she won mixed with Yoo Nam-kyu . Two years later she was in the victorious joint team of North and South Korea. This event served as the template for the 2012 film Koria (As one), in which Hyun Jung-hwa is portrayed by the actress Ha Ji-won and herself has a brief appearance as the coach of the French national team. In 1993 she became world champion in singles, in mixed she won silver alongside Yoo Nam-kyu.

At the Olympic Games in 1988 she won doubles with Yang Young-ja. In 1992 she won bronze in singles and doubles with Hong Cha-ok .

In 1994 she retired from competitive sports. In 2010 she was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame . Today (2012) she is the director of the South Korean table tennis association.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1990	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	last 16	Semifinals	gold	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1988	Niigata	JPN	Semifinals	gold	gold	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1986	Shenzhen	CHN	Quarter finals		silver
COR	Asian Cup	1987	Seoul	COR	3
COR	Asian Games	1990	Beijing	CHN	Quarter finals	gold	silver	2
COR	Asian Games	1986	Seoul	COR	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Semifinals	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1986	Nagoya	JPN	gold	silver
COR	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	bronze	bronze
COR	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	last 16	gold
COR	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	gold	last 16	silver	3
KOU	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 16	Quarter finals	last 16	1
COR	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	Semifinals	Quarter finals	gold	2
COR	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 16	gold	last 16	2
COR	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		silver
COR	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		gold
COR	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				2
COR	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				3

swell

• Rahul Nelson: Disciplined to Success: Hyun Jung Hwa - A quiet star , DTS magazine , 1993/6 pp. 46–47

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/3 p. 54
2. ↑ Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 4, 2011; PDF; 407 kB)  
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/6 p. 7
4. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 9, 2011)  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hyun is the family name here, Jung-hwa is the first name.