Yoon Kyung-shin
Yoon Kyung -shin
Status: National December 21, 2013
Yoon Kyung -shin (born 7 July 1973 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean handball player. The left-hander plays on the position back room to the right.
The Handball games he started with 12 years in the school. Prior to joining the German Bundesliga club VfL Gummersbach in 1996, he played at Kyunghee University. From the 2006/07 season played Yoon two years for HSV Hamburg, where he wore the jersey number 77. After the 2007/ 08 season Yoon left the HSV Hamburg toward South Korea. Here he graduated alongside his handball career when factory team Doosan a sports marketing studies.
He is with his 2.04 m height as eleventh largest South Koreans.
With 2,908 gates he is the record holder of the goalscorers list of Handball - Bundesliga. In the years 1997 to 2002, 2004 and 2007 he was the top scorer in each case. In the 2000/2001 season he threw 324 gates as much hits as no one in the history of the Bundesliga. Even at the Olympics, he became the top scorer of all time.
So far, he has been nominated 263 times for the Korean national team. In addition, he was elected World Handball Player of the Year in 2001. In summer 2012, he participated in the Olympic Games in London. With South Korea in 2012, he won the Asian Cup.
His nickname " Nick", he was, according to legend by former national coach Heiner Brand, who coached Yoon in his first years in Germany. Due to his then small German knowledge Yoon understood little of Brands instructions and merely nodded politely at the remarks of his coach - then from which emerged his nickname.
Yoon Kyung -shin is married with Kwon Soon- kyun. Together they have a son.
Achievements
- European Cup Winner 2007
- Supercup final 2006
- Asian Games: 5 × Gold ( 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010)
Awards
- World Handball Player in 2001
- Sportsman of the Century in South Korea
- Bundesliga top scorer in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007
- World Cup top scorer 1995, 1997