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{{short description|Chinese handball player (born 1971)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Zhai]]|lang=Chinese}}
[[Image:Chao Zhai.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Zhai Chao]]

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{{MedalSport|Women's [[Handball]]}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1990 Asian Games|1990 Beijing]]|[[Handball at the 1990 Asian Games – Women|Team]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1994 Asian Games|1994 Hiroshima]]|[[Handball at the 1994 Asian Games – Women|Team]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2002 Asian Games|2002 Busan]]|[[Handball at the 1994 Asian Games – Women|Team]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Women's Handball Championship|Asian Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1995 Asian Women's Handball Championship|1995 Seoul]]|Team}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1997 Asian Women's Handball Championship|1997 Amman]]|Team}}
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'''Zhai Chao''' ({{zh|c=翟超|p=Zhái Chāo}}; born December 14, 1971, in [[Beijing]]) is a [[PR China|Chinese]] [[Team handball|handball]] player who competed in the [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996]] and [[2004 Summer Olympics]], as well as in the 1999, 2001 and 2003 World championships. She was voted [[IHF World Player of the Year]] 2002.

==Career==
Chao Zhai started playing handball in [[Beijing]] in 1985. In the [[Handball at the 1996 Summer Olympics|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 [[World Women's Handball Championship|1999 World championship]] in Denmark/Norway. She started playing for the German club ''[[SV Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe|SV Berliner VG 49]]'' in January 1998,<ref name=berliner>{{in lang|de}} [https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/nur-bei-erstklassigkeit-darf-die-chinesische-handballerin-bleiben-bvb-bangt-um-chao-zhai-li.28929 Karl-Heinz Bergmann: "BVB bangt um Chao Zhai &ndash; Nur bei Erstklassigkeit darf die chinesische Handballerin bleiben"]  &ndash; ''Berliner Zeitung (02.11.1999)'' (Retrieved on February 6, 2008)</ref> 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 and the 6th best scorer in the championship. She was a member of the Chinese team which finished eighth in the [[Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's handball|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 Women's Champions League|EHF Champions League]] in 2006 and [[EHF Women's Champions League 2008/09|2009]].

==Awards==
Chao Zhai was voted [[IHF World Player of the Year|World Handball Player of the Year 2002]]<ref name=ihf>[http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idcat=173&idart=516 Previous World Handball Players] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622040048/http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idcat=173&idart=516 |date=June 22, 2009 }} (Retrieved on December 14, 2007)</ref> by the [[International Handball Federation]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110522102742/http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/chn/Chao+Zhai/364733 Profile at Yahoo! Sports (archive)]

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[[Category:1971 births]]
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[[Category:Chinese female handball players]]
[[Category:21st-century Chinese sportswomen]]
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[[Category:Olympic handball players for China]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Beijing]]
[[Category:Handball players at the 1990 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Handball players at the 1994 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Handball players at the 1998 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Handball players at the 2002 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists for China]]
[[Category:Asian Games bronze medalists for China]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Expatriate handball players in Germany]]
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[[Category:Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Germany]]
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[[Category:Asian Games bronze medalists in handball]]
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