Cédric Burdet

Cédric Burdet on 12 August 2007

Status: National August 25, 2009

Cédric Burdet (* November 15, 1974 in Belley / France ) is a retired French handball player. He is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

Cédric Burdet received his first professional contract at Chambery Savoie HB. With the men of Savoy, the right back player in 1994 was promoted to the first French league. After a year in the top division Burdet was committed by the former French champions Montpellier HB. There he won the 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003, the French Championships, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 the French Cup and as a highlight of 2003 EHF Champions League. Then Burdet went abroad, namely in the German handball Bundesliga VfL Gummersbach. There Burdet won but no other title, and was most of the time in the shade of Kyung -Shin Yoon. So he came back in 2006 to Montpellier, where in 2007 he won the French League Cup and in 2008, 2009 the championship. 2009 ended Burdet his career.

Cédric Burdet played 227 international matches for the French men's national handball team. With France he won bronze medalist at the World Championships in 1997 and 2003. In the European Handball Championship 2006 Burdet was missing through injury. At the World Handball Championship for Men in Germany in 2007, he took part, failed in France but in the semifinals of the German team and finished at the end of the 4th Place. In the 2008 Olympics he won the gold medal.