Léna Grandveau
| Léna Grandveau | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born |
21 January 2003 Beaune, France | ||
| Nationality | French | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Metz Handball | ||
| Number | 29 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2008-2017 | Beaune Handball | ||
2017-2020 | Chevigny-St-Sauveur | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2020–2022 | Bourg-de-Péage Drôme | ||
2022–2024 | Neptunes de Nantes | ||
2024– | Metz Handball | ||
| National team 1 | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2022- | France | 34 | (49) |
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1 National team caps and goals correct as of 12 November 2024 | |||
Léna Grandveau (born 21 January 2003)[1] is a French female handball player for Metz Handball and the French national team.[2] She is a world champion from 2023.[3]
Career
[edit]Grandveau started her career at Bourg-de-Péage Drôme, before joining Neptunes de Nantes in 2022.[4] Due to Nantes' financial trouble, she joined Metz Handball in 2024.[5]
National team
[edit]She represented France in the 2019 European Women's U-17 Handball Championship, where she received bronze.[6] She was awarded to the All-Star Team, as best Centre back of the tournament.[7]
She debuted for the French senior national team on 30 October 2022 in a 31:28 win against Poland. With France she won the 2023 World Championship.[3] At the 2024 Olympics at home soil she won silver medals, losing to Norway in the final.[8]
Achievements
[edit]- Youth European Championship:
- Bronze Medalist: 2019
Individual awards
[edit]- All-Star Team Best Centre back of the Youth European Championship: 2019
- IHF Young Female Player of the Year 2023 [9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ DHDb Profile
- ^ a b "Team cumulative statistics France" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ "Léna Grandveau, jeune internationale française, signe aux Neptunes de Nantes" (in French). 6 May 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Metz HB verpflichtet Beste Nachwuchshandballerin der Welt 2023" (in German). 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ "2019 W17 EHF EURO – Final Tournament". EHF. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ "Golden generations: Hungary also win W17 EHF EURO". EHF. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ "Paris 2024: Medallists" (PDF). olympics.com. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "IHF | 2023 IHF World Player of the Year winners revealed".
External links
[edit]- Léna Grandveau at the International Handball Federation
- Léna Grandveau at the European Handball Federation (also at EHF Archive)
- Léna Grandveau at Équipe de France (in French)
- Léna Grandveau at Olympics.com
- Léna Grandveau at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Léna Grandveau on Instagram
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- 2003 births
- Living people
- French female handball players
- Olympic handball players for France
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- People from Beaune
- 21st-century French sportswomen
- Metz Handball players
- French handball biography stubs