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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhai.
Zhai Chao (simplified Chinese: 翟超, 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 was voted IHF World Player of the Year 2002.
[edit] 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 Berliner VB 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.
[edit] Awards
Chao Zhai was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2002[2] by the International Handball Federation.
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