Yoon Kyung-shin


Yoon Kyung-shin 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 in 2001.
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. At the 1995 World Championship he broke the record for most non-penalty goals at a world championship with 70. He was South Korean flag bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Honours

Player

HSV Hamburg
Doosan Handball
South Korea
Individual

Manager

Doosan Handball
Individual

Personal

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