'The final mock test was defeated' The Korean women's handball team moved to Paris on the 22nd
Jul 21, 2024
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The South Korean women's handball team, led by head coach Henrik Signel, will move to the Paris Olympic Village on the 22nd. The Korea Handball Association said on the 21st (Korea time) 'The team entered the Korea Sports Council training camp in Fontainebleau, France on the 19th. On the 22nd, we will move to the Paris Olympic Village to prepare for the first event.
South Korea has been working hard to prepare for the Olympics by traveling both at home and abroad. It was first called up at Jincheon Training Center in North Chungcheong Province in May, and the first European training session was held in Norway and Sweden. The national team, which briefly reorganized in Korea, departed for Spain and the Netherlands via Incheon International Airport on the 8th for final training. The players lost 24 to 26 in the final mock test of the Olympics against the Netherlands in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on the 18th.
Korean women's handball is the strongest in the world. He won two consecutive Olympic gold medals in Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992. In the Olympics alone, he won two gold medals, three silver medals, and one bronze medal. South Korea has achieved a great achievement in making the Olympic finals for the 11th consecutive time since the 1984 Games. However, international competitiveness has weakened since the 2010s. The most recent medal was the 2008 bronze medal in Beijing. In 2012, he finished his challenge in the semi-finals in London. In Rio 2016, for the first time ever, he experienced the humiliation of being eliminated from the group stage. In the previous Tokyo match, he reached the quarterfinals. However, even at that time, he did not advance on his own.
This year's competition is also not easy. Starting with Germany on Saturday, Korea will have a showdown in Group A with Slovenia (28th), Norway (30th), Sweden (August 1st) and Denmark (4th). Tied up with European powerhouses. Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, in particular, ranked second to fourth at the World Championships in December last year.
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