Timothey N'Guessan (born 18 September 1992) is a French professional

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 goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

and for the French national team.

Career

His achievements with the national team include winning a silver medal at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, and a gold medal at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

Honours

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

** ''Winner:

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Personal life

N'Guessan was born in Massy on 18 September 1992.

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* 1992 births Living people French sportspeople of Ivorian descent French male handball players Olympic handball players for France Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in handball FC Barcelona Handbol players Liga ASOBAL players Chambéry Savoie Mont-Blanc Handball players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France French expatriate handball players in Spain Black French sportspeople Sportspeople from Seine-Maritime 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-handball-bio-stub