Song Dong-hwan

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Song Dong-hwan
Date of birth 4th February 1980
place of birth Seoul , South Korea
size 176 cm
Weight 79 kg
position striker
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1998-2002 Korea University
2002-2003 Dong won
2003-2011 Anyang Halla
2011–2012 Nikko IceBucks
2012-2016 High1
Korean spelling
Hangeul 송동환
Hanja 宋東桓
Revised
Romanization 		Song Dong-hwan
McCune-
Reischauer 		Song Tonghwan

Song Dong-hwan (born February 4, 1980 in Seoul ) is a former South Korean ice hockey player who won the Asia League Ice Hockey twice with Anyang Halla .

Career

Song Dong-hwan began his career as a hockey player on the Kyungbock High School team . At the age of 18, he joined the team at Korea University for four years due to his studies . After spending the 2002/03 season with Dong Won in the South Korean league, he moved to Anyang Halla in the Asia League Ice Hockey , where he played until 2011 - interrupted by his military service from 2006 to 2008. In 2006 he was voted the league's best striker as the top scorer. In 2009 and 2010 he won the South Korean Ice Hockey Cup with Anyang Halla . In 2010 and 2011 he won the Asia League with his team. After these successes, he moved to Japan, where he played for league rivals Nikko IceBucks . But after just one season he returned to South Korea in 2012 and played for High1 in the Asia League until his end of career in 2016 . With the team from Chuncheon he won the South Korean Ice Hockey Cup in December 2012 , to which he made a significant contribution as the most valuable player .

International

Song Dong-hwan took part in the U18 championships in Asia and Oceania for South Korea in 1996, 1997 and 1998 . He was the top scorer in 1997 and 1998 and was also voted the best player of the tournament in 1997. In 1998 he won the championship with South Korea and scored 33 goals in the 92-0 win against Thailand alone.

With the men's national team , he first played at the C World Championships in 1999 and 2000 . After switching to the current division system, he played in Division I in 2002 , 2004 , 2010 and 2011. After relegations in the meantime, he was on the ice in Division II in 2003 and 2009 , where he was promoted to Division I again.

At the Winter Asian Games 2011 he won the bronze medal with the South Korean team behind Kazakhstan and Japan .

Achievements and Awards

Asia League statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 11 392 183 283 466 189
Playoffs 8th 41 12 13 25th 22nd

(Status: end of the 2015/16 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ message on www.alhockey.com, accessed on 18 March 2018th
  2. ↑ "New-look Anyang Halla adds western flavor" at www.nhl.com, accessed on July 24, 2016. The site speaks of the 1999 competition, but it must be about the 1998 competition, because on the one hand South Korea 1999 is not against Thailand and on the other hand, the 1999 song would have been too old to take part in the 18 competitions.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Song is the family name here, Dong-hwan is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Song Dong-hwan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 송동환 (Korean, Hangeul); 宋東桓 (Korean, Hanja); Song, Dong-hwan (Revised Romanization); Song, Tonghwan (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea