Yoon Kyung-shin

In this Korean name, the family name is Yoon.

Yoon Kyung-shin
Yoon with HSV Hamburg in 2007
Personal information
Born	(1973-07-07) 7 July 1973 (age 51) Seoul, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Right back
Club information
Current club	Doosan Handball (manager)
Youth career
Team
	Kyung Hee University
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1996–2006	VfL Gummersbach
2006–2008	HSV Hamburg
2008–2011	Doosan Handball
National team
Years	Team
1990–2012	South Korea
Teams managed
2013–	Doosan Handball
2015–2016	South Korea
Medal record Representing  South Korea Men's handball Asian Games 1990 Beijing 1994 Hiroshima 1998 Bangkok 2002 Busan 2010 Guangzhou Asian Championship 1993 Manama 2000 Kumamoto 2010 Beirut 2012 Jeddah 1995 Kuwait City

Yoon Kyung-shin
Hangul	윤경신
Hanja	尹京信
Revised Romanization	Yun Gyeongsin
McCune–Reischauer	Yun Kyŏngsin

Yoon Kyung-shin (Korean: 윤경신; born July 7, 1973) is a South Korean handball manager and former player.

Playing career

Yoon Kyung-shin played in the German league Handball-Bundesliga through his outstanding performances in World Championships. He played for VfL Gummersbach from 1996 to 2006, and for HSV Hamburg from 2006 to 2008. He became the top goalscorer of the Bundesliga seven times, and is currently the second highest scoring player of Bundesliga with 2,905 goals. He was also voted the World Player of the Year by the International Handball Federation (IHF) in 2001.^[1]

He played more than 260 games for the South Korea national handball team, and was top goalscorer at three World Championships and one Summer Olympics. He was South Korean flag bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Honours

Player

HSV Hamburg

• DHB-Supercup: 2006
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 2006–07

Doosan Handball

• Handball Korea League: 2011^[2][3]

South Korea

• Asian Games: 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010
• Asian Championship: 1993, 2000, 2010, 2012

Individual

• IHF World Player of the Year: 2001^[1]
• Summer Olympics top goalscorer: 2004^[4]
• World Championship top goalscorer: 1993, 1995, 1997^[5][6][7]
• World Championship All-Star Team: 1995, 2001^[8][9]
• Handball-Bundesliga top goalscorer: 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2006–07^[10]
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup top goalscorer: 2006–07^[11]

Manager

Doosan Handball

• Handball Korea League: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018–19, 2019–20

Individual

• Handball Korea League Best Manager: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018–19, 2019–20^[3]

Personal

His younger brother Yoon Kyung-min was also a handball player.

References

1. "Previous World Handball Players". IHF. 22 June 2009. Archived from the original on 22 June 2009.
2. "Yoon Kyung-shin profile" (in Korean). Korea Handball Federation. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
3. "HKL history" (in Korean). Korea Handball Federation. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
4. "Athens 2004 - Handball, p. 470" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
5. "1993 Men Indoor SWE" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
6. "1995 Men Indoor ISL" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
7. "1997 Men Indoor JPN" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
8. "Geir í úrvalslið HM". mbl.is (in Icelandic). 23 May 1995. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
9. "Lovgren élu meilleur joueur du Mondial" (in French). Handzone. 4 February 2001. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
10. "Die Torschützenkönige der 1.Bundesliga Männer". bundesligainfo.de (in German). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
11. "2006/07 Men's Cup Winners' Cup - Top Scorers". EHF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

External links

• Yoon Kyung-shin at the European Handball Federation
• Yoon Kyung-shin at Olympedia

Olympic Games
Preceded by Jang Sung-ho	Flagbearer for  South Korea London 2012	Succeeded by Gu Bon-gil