| Date of birth | 22 January 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 107 kg (236 lb; 16 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Han Kun-kyu (born 22 January 1987) is a South Korean rugby union and sevens player. [1] He competed for South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
A high school gym teacher, who was a former rugby player, introduced him to the sport. [2] He attended Yonsei University and while in his senior year there he was scouted by the Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps as an athlete. [2]
Han was a stand out player for the South Korean fifteens team in the 2009 Asian Five Nations. [3] He scored a brace of tries in his sides 36–34 victory over Hong Kong in the tournament. [3] [4] He also competed in the 2010 Asian Five Nations tournament. [3] [5]
He was in the South Korean fifteens team that participated in the 2017 Asia Rugby Championship, he scored their first try against Japan at the Incheon Namdong Asiad Rugby Field. [6] [7] He was part of the South Korean sevens squad that competed in the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens. [8]
Han was part of South Korea's sevens team that competed at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. [9] [10] He featured for the sevens team in the Incheon leg of the 2022 Asia Rugby Sevens Series. [11]
In 2023, he competed for the South Korean sevens side at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. [12] [13] He scored a try and helped his side defeat Chinese Taipei in their opening match of the competition. [12]
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