Kang Hee-chan

Korean spelling
Hangeul	강희찬
Hanja	姜煕燦
Revised Romanization	Gang Hui-chan
McCune- Reischauer	Kang Haich'an
See also : Korean name

Kang Hee-chan (born May 10, 1970 ) is a South Korean table tennis player who won the bronze medal in doubles at the 1992 Olympic Games.

Career

Kang Hee-chan achieved his first international success in 1987 at the Asian Youth Championships, where he reached the final in mixed with Lee Chong Mu. In 1990 he won the team competition at the Asian Games . He won other titles at the Asian Championships for adults: in 1992 he lost the final against Xie Chaojie , in doubles with Lee Chul-seung he was Asian champion. In 1996 he finished second in doubles with Kim Taek-soo , and won the title with the South Korean team.

In 1989 , 1991 and 1993 he was nominated for the world championship . In 1989 and 1993 he was fifth with the team, in 1993 he was eliminated in doubles in the quarter-finals. At the 1992 Olympic Games he won the bronze medal in doubles with Lee Chul-seung , as the semi-final match against the German Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner was lost. At the next Olympics four years later he made it to the quarterfinals in doubles.

After 1996 he no longer appeared internationally. In the ITTF world rankings , Kang Hee-chan was ranked 64th in 1997.

He later worked as a national coach for South Korea.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1996	Kallang	SIN	Quarter finals	silver	Quarter finals	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1992	New Delhi	IND	silver	gold
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1990	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	last 16	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
COR	Asian Cup	1989	Beijing	CHN	4th
COR	Asian Cup	1987	Seoul	COR	10
COR	Asian Games	1990	Beijing	CHN	last 16		Semifinals	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1987	Kediri	INA			silver
COR	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	no participants	Quarter finals
COR	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	immediately excluded	bronze
COR	Pro tour	1996	Kitaku-Shu	JPN		gold
COR	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	Quarter finals	last 16	5
KOU	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 32	last 32	last 16
COR	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 64	no participants	last 64	5
COR	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		Semifinals
COR	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		9
COR	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results at the OL ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2012 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 October 6, 2011; PDF; 18 kB)  
2. ↑ 1997 world rankings ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 4, 2016)
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 October 6, 2011)  
4. ↑ Kang Hee-chan results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 6, 2011)

Web links

• Profile on Olympics.com (accessed October 6, 2011)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kang is the family name here, Hee-chan is the first name.