Olivier Girault

Olivier Girault, 26 August 2008

Status: National May 16, 2008

Olivier Girault ( born February 22, 1973 in Pointe -a- Pitre / French West Indies ) is a French handball player and coach. He is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

From 2008 to 2011, he coached the French first division side Paris HB.

Olivier Girault began at Vaires -sur -Marne on the French mainland to the handball game. At age 18, he moved to Livry -Gargan HB, where he debuted in the first French league in 1994. 1995 wrote Girault first contracted HB in Paris, but had to borrow to the second division Massy due to low use times. In the meantime, he played for one year at Bidasoa Irun in Spain. After his return to Paris he was in 2001 the French Cup final, he became vice champion in 2005 and 2007 he won the French Cup.

Olivier Girault played 235 caps for the French national team. In the Men's Handball World Championship Men 2001 in his own country, he became world champion at the World Handball Championship in Switzerland in 2006 European Champion. Were particularly strong there, its 7 -meter throws. In the European Handball Championship 2008 in Norway, he won bronze, as well as at the World Championships in Tunisia in 2005 and 2003 in Portugal. At the World Cup in Germany in 2007 he finished fourth. At the European Championships, he was in 2004 in Slovenia and 2002 in Sweden sixth, 2000 in Croatia fourth and seventh in Italy in 1998. In the 2008 Olympics he won the gold medal.

Following the resignation Grégory Anquetil Girault was captain of the national team. In 2008 he resigned from the national team.