Pauletta Soréa Foppa[1] (born 22 December 2000) is a French handball player for Brest Bretagne Handball and the French national team.[2][3][4]
Career
Foppa started playing handball at the age of 10. In 2018, at age 17, she began her senior club career with Brest,[5] and made her senior debut on the French national team on November 22nd, 2018.
Her sporting achievements include 3 gold medals with the French national team at the European Championships (2018),.[6] the Olympic Games (2020)[7] and the World Championships (2023).[8] She has also won the French league and the French Cup with her club Brest.
Personal life
Born in France, Foppa is of Cameroonian descent.[9]
Achievements
Club
International
- EHF Champions League
- Finalist: 2021 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
Domestic
- French league:
- Winner
: 2021 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Tied 1st: 2020 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Runner up: 2022, 2023 and 2024 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Winner
- French Cup (Coupe de France):
- Winner
: 2021 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Runner up: 2019 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Winner
National team
Senior
Youth
- U-17 European Handball Championship:
- 2017: 4th place
- U-16 Mediterranean Handball Championship:
- 2016:
Gold
- 2016:
Awards and recognition
Individual
- All-Star Line player at the Olympic Games: 2020[10]
- All-Star Line player of the EHF Champions League: 2021[11]
- All-Star Line player of the Youth European Championship: 2017
- Best Young Player of the EHF Champions League: 2022[12]
- All-Star Line player of the World Championship: 2021
- All-Star Line player of the European Championship: 2022[13]
- Best Defender of the European Championship: 2024[14]
- EHF Excellence Awards Rookie of the season: 2022/23[15]
- Best Line player of the French League: 2022/23
- Best Defender of the French League: 2022/23
- Best Player and Topscorer of the U-16 Mediterranean Handball Championship: 2016
State and civic honours
- Inducted into the Legion of Honor with the rank of Chevalier: 2021[16]
References
- ^ "Pauletta Foppa". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
Full name: Pauletta Soréa Foppa
- ^ "Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 17 November 2018.[dead link ]
- ^ "Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ "L'espoir Français Pauletta Foppa à Brest l'an prochain". Ouest-France.fr. 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Pauletta Foppa s'engage avec le Brest Bretagne". handlfh.org (in French). LFH Division 1 Féminine. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Euro de handball féminin 2018 : la France sacrée championne d'Europe!". fnac.com (in French). Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ "Doppel-Gold in Tokio: Frankreich holt sich auch bei den Frauen den Olympiasieg" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Team cumulative statistics France" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Deleurence, Guillaume (18 December 2023). "Handball : des championnes du monde aux vraies couleurs de la France". POLITIS.
- ^ "Tokyo 2020 Women's All-Star Team". IHF. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Fan favourite Oftedal leads Györ quartet in All-star Team". European Handball Federation. 28 May 2021.
- ^ "Györ quintet headline EHF Champions League All-star Team". European Handball Federation. 3 June 2022.
- ^ "MVP Reistad leads EHF EURO 2022 All-Star Team". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ "Women's EHF EURO 2024 All-star Team revealed". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
- ^ "Golden players make the team of the season". EHF. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ "Décret portant nomination". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
External links
- Pauletta Foppa at the International Handball Federation
- Pauletta Foppa at the European Handball Federation (also at EHF Archive)
- Pauletta Foppa at Olympics.com
- Pauletta Foppa at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Pauletta Foppa at Équipe de France (in French)
- Pauletta Foppa at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
- Pauletta Foppa on Instagram
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