Diego Esteban Simonet (born 26 December 1989) is an Argentine handball player for Montpellier and the

Argentina men's national handball team The Argentina national handball team is the national handball team of Argentina and is controlled by the Argentina Handball Association. Tournament results Olympic Games World Championship Pan American Games Pan American Championship Sou ...

. He represented

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

at the

2011 World Men's Handball Championship The 2011 World Men's Handball Championship, the 22nd event hosted by the International Handball Federation, was held in Sweden from 13 to 30 January 2011. All matches were played in Malmö, Lund, Kristianstad, Gothenburg, Skövde, Jönköping, L ...

in Sweden,

2012 London Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

2013 World Men's Handball Championship The 2013 World Men's Handball Championship was the 23rd World Men's Handball Championship, an international handball tournament that took place in Spain from 11 to 27 January 2013. This was the first time Spain hosted the World Men's Handball Ch ...

in Spain and

2015 World Men's Handball Championship The 2015 World Men's Handball Championship was the 24th staging of the World Men's Handball Championship, organised by the International Handball Federation (IHF). The final tournament was held for the first time in Qatar, from 15 January to 1 Fe ...

in Qatar. His action defending Argentina brought home six continental championships (2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2014). Two of his brothers, Sebastian and

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, defended Argentina at Olympic and World Championship competitions.

Awards and recognition

*Clubs ** Coupe de la Ligue: 2016 *

2020 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship The 2020 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship was the first edition of the South and Central American Men's Handball Championship, held from 21 to 25 January 2020 in Brazil. It acted as the South and Central American qualifying to ...

: Best right wing

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* 1989 births Living people Argentine male handball players Argentine people of French descent Olympic handball players for Argentina Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in handball Expatriate handball players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in France Montpellier Handball players South American Games silver medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in handball Handball players at the 2011 Pan American Games Handball players at the 2015 Pan American Games Handball players at the 2019 Pan American Games Handball players at the 2023 Pan American Games Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games 21st-century Argentine people {{Argentina-handball-bio-stub