KANG Eunhye

Republic of Korea

Date of Birth: 17 Apr 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Height (m/ft): 1.86/6'1''

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Handball	Women KOR Republic of Korea	8

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #04 NOR Norway 39 KOR Republic of Korea 27	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #10 KOR Republic of Korea 36 NED Netherlands 43	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #15 JPN Japan 24 KOR Republic of Korea 27	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #20 MNE Montenegro 28 KOR Republic of Korea 26	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group A #25 KOR Republic of Korea 31 ANG Angola 31	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Quarterfinal #34 SWE Sweden 39 KOR Republic of Korea 30	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Youth Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2014	People's Republic of China

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
11	Women	2019	Japan
13	Women	2017	Germany

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2018	Indonesia

Asian Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2018	Japan

Occupation:

Korea National Sport University, Seoul, KOR

Languages spoken:

Busan Infrastructure Corporation [Republic of Korea] since 2018/19

Kang Jae-Won [club, national], KOR

Position style:

Pivot (japanhandball2019.com, 13 Dec 2019; sportsworldi.com, 17 Dec 2019)

2015 for Republic of Korea (news.joins.com, 31 Oct 2018)

National league:

Handball Korea League [KOR] (handballkorea.com, 02 Feb 2020)

She took up the sport in grade five at Inchang Elementary School in Guri, Republic of Korea. (news.joins.com, 01 Aug 2014)

She received offers from coaches of a number of sports but chose to pursue handball. "I didn't even know what handball was. I heard that it was similar to dodgeball." (news.joins.com, 01 Aug 2014; khan.co.kr, 24 Mar 2015)

Korean handball player Yoo Hyun-Ji. (news.chosun.com, 29 Oct 2018)

She was named a Best Seven Player of the 2019/20 Handball Korea League season. (ihf.info, 16 Apr 2020)

She received the Rising Star Award at the 2013 Korea Women's Sports Awards. (womennews.co.kr, 27 Nov 2013)

General Interest

General
CAREER CHOICE
In October 2018, during her fourth year at the Korea National Sport University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, she decided to drop out of her studies to pursue handball full-time with the Busan Infrastructure Corporation club in the Handball Korea League. (news.joins.com, 31 Oct 2018; yna.co.kr, 04 Nov 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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