Valentin Porte
| Valentin Porte | |||
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File:Valentin Porte-20160416-PSG-TOULOUSE 4.JPG Porte in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born |
7 September 1990 Versailles, France | ||
| Nationality | French | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right back/wing | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Montpellier Handball | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
1996–2006 | HBC Toury | ||
2006–2008 | Mainvilliers-Chartres HB | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2008–2016 | Fenix Toulouse | ||
2016– | Montpellier Handball | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2024 | France | 198 | (438) |
Medal record | |||
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Valentin Porte (born 7 September 1990) is a French handball player for Montpellier Handball.[1][2]
He won the European title in 2014, the world title in 2015 and 2017, and an Olympic gold medal in 2020.[3] He also won EHF Champions League in 2018 with Montpellier.
He normally plays as a right wing, but can also play as a right back.
Career
[edit | edit source]Porte senior debut came in the French top flight, Starligue, in 2008 for Fenix Toulouse Handball.
In the summer of 2016 he joined league rivals Montpellier Handball.[4] Here, he won the EHF Champions League in 2018.
National team
[edit | edit source]He debuted for the French national team in 2013, and his first major international tournament was the World Championship the same year. In 2015, he won the World Championship in Qatar.
At the 2016 Olympics, he won a silver medal with the french team, and was in the tournament all-star team.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ EHF profile
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External links
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- French male handball players
- Sportspeople from Versailles, Yvelines
- Olympic handball players for France
- Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Montpellier Handball players
- Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century French sportsmen
- Handball World Champions
- French handball biography stubs
- French Olympic medalist stubs