Chloé Valentini

Chloé Valentini
Valentini in 2022
Personal information
Full name Chloé Bouquet Valentini
Born (1995-04-19) 19 April 1995 (age 30)
Morteau, France
Nationality French
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Playing position Left wing
Club information
Current club Metz Handball
Number 6
Youth career
Years Team
2011-
 CA Morteau HB
2011-2013
 ES Besançon
Senior clubs
Years Team
2013–2021
 ES Besançon
2021–
 Metz Handball
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–
 France 110 (328)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
Silver medal – second place 2021 Spain
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 2020 Denmark

Chloé Bouquet Valentini (née Chloé Bouquet, 19 April 1995) is a French female handball player for Metz Handball and the French national team.[1][2]

Career

Valentini started playing handball at her hometown club, CA Morteau HB. In 2011, she transferred to ES Besançon.[3] She debuted for the senior team in 2013 in the second best French league.[4] In her first season, the club was promoted to Division 1.[5]

In 2017, she signed her first professional contract.[6]

In 2021, she switched to league rivals Metz Handball.[7] Here, she won both the French Championship and French Cup in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

National team

In 2017 she was part of the France women's national beach handball team and participated in the European Women's Beach Handball Championship.[8]

She debuted for the French national on September 25, 2019 against Turkey.[9]

The same year, she represented France at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship, where France came 13th.[10][11]

At the 2021 Olympics she was part of the French team that won Gold medals, the first for France.[12] Valentini scored 16 goals during the tournament.[13] Later the same year she won silver medals at the 2021 World Championship, losing to Norway in the final.[14]

At the 2023 World Championship she won gold medals.[15] At this occasion she was chosen for the tournament all-star team.[16]

At the 2024 Olympic Games she won silver medals, once again losing to Norway in the final.[17]

She missed the 2025 World Cup due to recently giving birth.[18]

Individual awards

References

  1. ^ "Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  2. ^ Chloé Bouquet
  3. ^ "Chloé Valentini, bientôt la fin d'un long bail de dix ans avec l'ESBF" (in French). estrepublicain.fr. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  4. ^ "L'ESBF rebondit dans tous les sens..." (in French). macommune.info. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Présentation du club". esbf.fr. ES Besançon. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Handball (LFH) : Chloé Bouquet portera le maillot de l'ESBF jusqu'en 2020" (in French). estrepublicain.fr. 26 February 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Handball : Chloé Valentini, une nouvelle vice-championne d'Europe à Metz" (in French). francebleu.fr. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  8. ^ statistics.eurohandball.com: 2017 Women's ECh Beach Handball, retrieved 26 June 2021
  9. ^ "Euro 2020 (qualifications) : Tamara Horacek de retour chez les Bleus, Chloé Bouquet appelée" (in French). lequipe.fr. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  10. ^ "#EDFF – Le groupe pour le Mondial au Japon". ffhandball.fr (in French). 7 November 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  11. ^ 2019 World Women's Handball Championship squad
  12. ^ "Doppel-Gold in Tokio: Frankreich holt sich auch bei den Frauen den Olympiasieg" (in German). handball-world.news. Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Cumulative Statistics: France 2021" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  14. ^ "16:4-Spurt im Finale der Handball-WM der Frauen: Norwegen krönt sich gegen Frankreich zum Weltmeister" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Team cumulative statistics France 2023" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  16. ^ a b "2023 IHF Women's World Championship: All-Star Team Revealed". ihf.info. IHF. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  17. ^ olympics.com: Paris 2024: Medallists, retrieved 11 August 2024
  18. ^ "Winds of change for title holders France ahead of Germany/Netherlands 2025". international Handball Federation. 4 November 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
  19. ^ "EHF Excellence Awards 2024: These are the season's best players". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
  20. ^ "EHF Excellence Awards 2025: Women's Team of the Season revealed". EHF. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlo%C3%A9_Bouquet