Kang Hee-chan

Kang Hee- chan ( born May 10, 1970) is a South Korean table tennis player in the Olympics won the bronze medal in doubles in 1992.

Career

Kang Hee -chan scored his first international success in 1987 with the Youth Asian Championships, where he met with Lee Chong Mu reached the final of the mixed doubles. In 1990, he won the team competition of the Asian Games. Other titles he won at the Asian Championships in adults: In 1992, he lost the final against Xie Chaojie, in a double with Lee Chul- seung he became Asian champions. He was in a double with Kim Taek -soo Second, with the South Korean team he won the title in 1996.

1989, 1991 and 1993, he was nominated for the World Cup. 1989 and 1993 he was with the team in fifth, 1993, he resigned in a double in the quarter- finals. At the Olympic Games in 1992 he took with Lee Chul- seung in a double bronze medal, as the semi-final match against Germany's Jörg Rosskopf / Steffen Fetzner was lost. At the next Olympics four years later, he came in a double to the quarterfinals.

After 1996, he no longer appeared internationally in appearance. In the ITTF World Ranking Kang Hee -chan was in 1997 at No. 64.

Later he worked as a coach for South Korea.

Results from the ITTF database