William Gérald Accambray (born 8 April 1988) is a French
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
player who plays for
Saran Loiret Handball
Saran Loiret Handball is a French handball team based in Saran, that plays in the LNH Division 1.
History
The club was founded in 1974. In 2002, he reached the 3rd division for the first time. In 2015, after several second places, the team ...
and for the
French national team.
With the French national team, he won the World Championship in 2011.
He is the son of hammer thrower
Jacques Accambray
Jacques Accambray (born 23 May 1950) is a French former track and field athlete.
A talented age group thrower, Accambray set a world junior record in men's hammer throw in 1969. During the early 1970s he studied at Kent State University in Ohio, ...
and
Isabelle Accambray.
Achievements
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
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**''Winner'': 2012
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World Championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
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**''Winner'': 2011, 2015
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European Championship:
**''Winner'': 2014
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LNH Division 1:
**''Winner'': 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
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Coupe de France:
**''Winner'': 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
References
External links
Profile at Montpellier Agglomération Handball official website
1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Cannes
French male handball players
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for France
Olympic gold medalists for France
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
European champions for France
Expatriate handball players
French expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
French expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
21st-century French people
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