Jérôme Fernandez

Jerome Fernandez in the National Dress (2010)

Status: National January 26, 2014

Jérôme Fernandez ( born March 7, 1977 in Cenon ) is a French handball player of Spanish descent. He is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour and Officer of the French National Order of Merit. He is 1.99 m tall and weighs 106 kg.

Fernandez, who for Fenix ​​Toulouse Handball plays since 2011 and for the French men's national handball team ( shirt number 2) accrued, may be used in the backcourt versatile; favorite place to play the right-handed in the backcourt left.

Club career

Jerome Fernandez began at Club La Bastidienne with the handball game. From 1985 he played in Carbon-Blanc. In 1993 he moved to FC Girondins de Bordeaux HBC and 1997 continue to Toulouse Union HB. With Toulouse, he won 1997/1998 French Cup. In 1999, he hired at Montpellier HB; with this club he won 1999/2000 and 2001/2002, the French Championships and 1999/2000, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 the French Cup.

In 2002 he moved to FC Barcelona. With Barcelona he won 2002/2003 and 2005/2006 the Spanish Championship, 2002/2003 the EHF Cup, 2003/2004 and 2006/2007 the Copa del Rey de Balonmano, 2003/2004 the Spanish Supercup 2003/2004 European Supercup as well as the Copa ASOBAL and 2004/2005 the EHF Champions League. In 2008 League competitor BM Ciudad Real Jérôme Fernandez made ​​a contract offer, which he accepted. With Ciudad Real, he won the 2008/2009 Spanish Cup and the EHF Champions League. In the 2009/10 season there was another Spanish title.

In September 2010, Jérôme Fernandez joined the temporary replacement for the injured Daniel Narcisse for German champions THW Kiel. At the end of the 2010/11 season he was also short-term committed handball by the French first division Fenix ​​Toulouse, for which he already played from 1997 to 1999.

National

Jérôme Fernandez has denied 2014 366 caps for the French men's national handball team between November 1997 and 23 January 1418 and is equipped with gates of France scorer.

His successes in the national team 's victories are at the world championships in 2001, 2009 and 2011., He won bronze at the 2003 World Championships and the World Cup 2005.

He won with his team the 2006 European Championship, in 2010 and 2014.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012 he won the gold medal with France.

Awards

• Knight of the National Order of Merit National (2001)
• Knight of the Legion of Honour (2012 )
• Officer of the French National Order of Merit (2013 )