Continuous participation since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
South Korea's women's handball team aims to compete in the Olympic finals for the 11th consecutive time.
The Korea Handball Association said the women's national handball team, which will compete in the Asian qualifying round for the 2024 Paris Olympics, left for Hiroshima, Japan, on the 15th.
The preliminary round will be held from the 17th to the 23rd.
South Korea, led by head coach Henrik Signel, will play full league qualifiers against China on the 18th, Kazakhstan on the 21st, and Japan on the 23rd, starting with the match against India on the 17th. The first-place team with the highest points will be given a ticket to the Paris Olympics finals.
Korean women's handball has competed in the Olympic finals for 10 consecutive times from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
His participation in the 10th consecutive Olympics is the only record for men and women in Olympic handball history.
Park Sae-young (Samsuk City Hall), who led the league's second consecutive championship, Jung Jin-hee (Seoul City Hall), who led the national sports competition last year, and Park Jo-eun (Gwangju City Corporation), who won the league's goalkeeper award, were named goalkeepers.
The center backs included Lee Mi-kyung (Busan Facilities Corporation), Kang Kyung-min, Song Hye-soo (Gwangju City Corporation), and Woo Bit-na (Seoul City Hall), followed by rookie Kim Min-seo (Samchuk City Hall). 스포츠토토
Ryu Eun-hee (Kyori Audi ETO), the only player active in Europe, will also help.
A total of 12 countries will participate in women's handball at the Paris Olympics.
The Olympic hosts, the winners of this year's World Women's Handball Championships, and the winners of qualifying matches from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Asian continent will compete.
The remaining six chapters will be directed to the top six Olympic playoff countries.
Host France and European champions Norway have confirmed their participation in the Olympics.
