Kang Jae-won
Player information | |
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birthday | November 30, 1965 |
place of birth | South Korea |
citizenship | Korean |
height | 1.83 m |
Playing position | Back right |
Back center | |
Throwing hand | Left |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
-1990 | ? |
1990-1992 | Grasshoppers Zurich |
1992-2002 | Pathfinder Winterthur |
National team | |
Games (goals) | |
South Korea |
Korean spelling | |
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Hangeul | 강재원 |
Hanja | 姜 在 源 |
Revised Romanization |
Gang Jae-won |
McCune- Reischauer |
Kang Jaewon |
Kang Jae-won (born November 30, 1965 in South Korea ) is a former Korean handball player and current handball coach . The left-hander Kang was very versatile as an all-rounder . So he played on the positions backcourt right , backcourt middle and right wing .
successes
In 1989, Kang was voted world handball player of the year. Kang was known for his jumping ability, with which he was able to compensate for his relatively short body length of 1.83 m (75 kg body weight) and a very hard throw. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , Kang surprisingly won the silver medal with the Korean national team. With 49 goals scored, he was the tournament's top scorer. At the 1986 World Cup he was the top scorer with 67 goals.
Career
Kang's first stop in Europe was in 1990 with the Grasshoppers Zurich team . Two years later he moved to the rival Pfadi Winterthur . In 1999 he left Pfadi Winterthur to play in the USA. The USA adventure failed due to a lack of funds in the US association, so that a few months later Kang played for Winterthur again. At the end of 2000 he left Winterthur again to go to Korea, but came back after two months and replaced Urs Mühlethaler as player- coach for Pfadi Winterthur. At the end of the 2001/2002 season, he finally left Switzerland. In April 2000, Kang was in negotiations with the THW Kiel . He should relieve Staffan Olsson in the right backcourt. For family reasons, however, the change did not take place.
He then worked in Japan as a handball trainer for national champion Daido Steel from Nagoya . In 2007 he took over the coaching position of the Chinese women's national team . He has been coaching the South Korean women's national team since November 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pfadi Winterthur club history (PDF file; 116 kB)
- ↑ thw-provinzial.de of April 14, 2000, Kang not to THW
- ↑ landbote.ch of December 30, 2005, Yellow Cup in Winterthur
- ↑ chinadaily.com.cn: Handball coach combines Asian, European styles , accessed on April 11, 2017
- ↑ english.yonhapnews.co.kr: Two S. Korean head coaches meet in final of Asian Women's Handball Championship , accessed on April 10, 2017
literature
- Kang Jae-won in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Lexicon of Handball, Komet Verlag, ISBN 3-89836-605-7 , p. 110
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kang, Jae-won |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 강재원 (Korean, Hangeul); 姜 在 源 (Korean, Hanja); Gang, Jae-won (Revised Romanization); Kang, Jaewŏn (McCune-Reischauer) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Korean handball player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | South Korea |