Guéric Kervadec (born 9 January 1972) is a former French

team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a Handball goalkeeper, goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands ...

player who was part of the French team that won the 1995 World Championship; the first time France won a major international tournament. At club level he played for Belley, Vénissieux HB,

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and

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in France and

SC Magdeburg The SC Magdeburg is a professional handball club from Magdeburg, Germany. The team plays in the highest German league, the Handball-Bundesliga and regularly in highest international competitions. They won the EHF Champions League in 1978, 1981, ...

Germany. Kervadec was born in the commune of

La Garenne-Colombes La Garenne-Colombes () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from Notre Dame de Paris, France's kilometre zero. Name The commune used to be part of the neighbouring city of Colombes. At t ...

in north-west Paris. He is perhaps best known for having competed in the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

, where the French team placed 4th. He also participated in the

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and

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, where the French team placed 6th and 5th respectively.

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* Sportspeople from La Garenne-Colombes 1972 births Living people French male handball players Olympic handball players for France Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics People from Belley Sportspeople from Ain USAM Nîmes Gard players SC Magdeburg players French expatriate handball players in Germany 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-handball-bio-stub Sportspeople from Brittany