Bertrand Gille (handballer)

Gille in use for Chambéry (2012 )

Status: National January 10, 2014

Bertrand Gille (born 24 March 1978 in Valence ) is a French handball player. He is considered one of the best county runners in the world and was voted World Handball Player of the Year in 2002. He is an officer of the French National Order of Merit.

Career

Association

His career began in the 1.87 m wide and 87 kg Bertrand Gille in the French town of Valence in the HBC Loriol. The change to Chambery Savoie HB in 1996 meant for Gille also the change of position to the circle runner. With Chambery Savoie HB 2001 he celebrated the French championship and the 2002 League Cup victory.

On July 1 In 2002, Bertrand Gille ( shirt number 14) together with his brother Guillaume Gille for HSV Hamburg in the Handball Bundesliga. The brothers won with the HSV Hamburg 2006 the DHB Cup at the Final Four in the domestic Color Line Arena in Hamburg, and the following year the Cup Winners' Cup. In the season 2010/11 he became German champion. In summer 2012 he returned to France, together with Guillaume to Chambery Savoie HB, where the youngest brother Benjamin also plays.

National

Bertrand Gille was an integral part of the successful French national team during the 2000s.

With the choice he became World Champion 2001 in their own country. At the European Championships in Switzerland in 2006 he was in the final reigning world champion Spain beat sovereign. Among his greatest achievements include two Olympic victories in 2008 and 2012. 2010 he was the European champion and the 2011 world title win again.

He played 268 matches in which he scored 806 goals.

Private

Bertrand Gille is married and has three children.

Achievements

  • World Champion 2001, 2011
  • European Champion 2006, 2010
  • All- Star Team World Cup 2011, Olympic Games 2008
  • French Handball Champion 2001
  • German Champion 2011
  • German Cup winner 2006 and 2010
  • Cup finalist in Germany 2004, 2008
  • Supercup final in Germany in 2004, 2006 and 2010
  • French Cup Winners 2002
  • European Cup Winner 2007
  • Bronze medal at the World Handball Championship 2008
  • Olympic champion in Beijing 2008 and London 2012

Bundesliga balances

Awards

  • Knight of the National Order of Merit National (2001)
  • World Handball Player of the Year 2002
  • Knight of the Legion of Honour (2008)
  • Honorary Member of the HSV Hamburg ( 2012)
  • Officer of the French National Order of Merit (2013 )
Valence, Drôme IHF World Player of the Year DHB-Pokal 2010–11 Handball-Bundesliga 2006 European Men's Handball Championship Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics Anja Andersen Ausra Fridrikas Cecilie Leganger Nadine Krause Cristina Neagu Magnus Wislander Jackson Richardson Daniel Stephan Henning Fritz Mikkel Hansen Daniel Narcisse Domagoj Duvnjak
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