Yoon Kyung-shin (Korean: 윤경신; born 7 July 1973) 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 (IHF) 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
DHB-Supercup: 2006
EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 2006–07
Doosan Handball
Handball Korea League: 2011
South Korea
Asian Games: 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010
Asian Championship: 1993, 2000, 2010, 2012
Individual
IHF World Player of the Year: 2001
Summer Olympics top goalscorer: 2004
World Championship top goalscorer: 1993, 1995, 1997
World Championship All-Star Team: 1995, 2001
Handball-Bundesliga top goalscorer: 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2006–07
EHF Cup Winners' Cup top goalscorer: 2006–07
Manager
Doosan Handball
Handball Korea League: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018–19, 2019–20
Individual
Handball Korea League Best Manager: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018–19, 2019–20
Personal
His younger brother Yoon Kyung-min was also a handball player.