Zhai Chao

Zhai Chao
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhai.
Zhai Chao

Zhai Chao (Chinese: 翟超; pinyin: Zhái Chāo; born December 14, 1971 in Beijing) is a female Chinese handball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as in the 1999 and 2001 World championships. She was voted IHF World Player of the Year 2002.

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Career

Chao Zhai started playing handball in Beijing in 1985. In the 1996 Olympics she finished fifth with the Chinese team. She played all four matches and scored 29 goals. She played for the Chinese national team at the 1999 World championship in Denmark/Norway. She started playing for the German club SV Berliner VG 49 in 1999.,[1] and switched to the Danish club Randers HK in 2001. She played for the Chinese national team in the 2001 World Women's Handball Championship in Italy where she scored 49 goals. She was a member of the Chinese team which finished eighth in the 2004 summer Olympics, where she played all seven matches and scored 32 goals. In 2004 she started playing for the Danish club Viborg HK, and with this club she won the EHF Champions League in 2006 and 2009.

Awards

Chao Zhai was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2002[2] by the International Handball Federation.

References

  1. ^ (German) Karl-Heinz Bergmann: "BVB bangt um Chao Zhai – Nur bei Erstklassigkeit darf die chinesische Handballerin bleiben" – Berliner Zeitung (02.11.1999) (Retrieved on February 6, 2008)
  2. ^ Previous World Handball Players (Retrieved on December 14, 2007)

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Awards
Preceded by
Cecilie Leganger		 IHF World Player of the Year – Women
2002		 Succeeded by
Bojana Radulović
v · IHF World Player of the Year – Women

Svetlana Kitić (1988) • Kim Hyun-Mee (1989) • Jasna Kolar-Merdan (1990) • Mia Hermansson-Högdahl (1994) • Erzsébet Kocsis (1995) • Lim O-Kyeong (1996) • Anja Andersen (1997) • Trine Haltvik (1998) • Ausra Fridrikas (1999) • Bojana Radulović (2000) • Cecilie Leganger (2001) • Zhai Chao (2002) • Bojana Radulović (2003) • Anita Kulcsár (2004) • Anita Görbicz (2005) • Nadine Krause (2006) • Gro Hammerseng (2007) • Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth (2008) • Allison Pineau (2009) • Cristina Neagu (2010)


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