Bertrand Gille

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Bertrand Gille
Bertrand Gille

Gille in action for Chambéry (2014)

Player information
Nickname "Bobo"
birthday March 24, 1978
place of birth Valence , France
citizenship FrenchmanFrenchman French
height 1.87 m
Playing position Circular rotor
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
1984-1996 FranceFrance HBC Loriol
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1996-2002 FranceFrance Chambery Savoie HB
2002–2012 GermanyGermany HSV Hamburg
2012-2015 FranceFrance Chambery Savoie HB
National team
Debut on November 29, 1997
against Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
  Games (goals)
FranceFrance France 268 (806)

As of September 21, 2016

Bertrand Gille (born March 24, 1978 in Valence ) is a former French handball player . During his playing days, he was considered one of the best circular runners in the world and was voted World Handballer of the Year in 2002. He is an officer of the French National Order of Merit .

Career

society

Guillaume and Bertrand Gille

Bertrand Gille, who was 1.87 m tall and weighed 98 kg when he was active, began his career in the French town of Valence at HBC Loriol. The move to Chambéry Savoie HB in 1996 also meant for Gille the change of position to the circle runner. With Chambéry Savoie HB he celebrated the French championship in 2001 and the league cup victory in 2002.

On July 1, 2002, Bertrand Gille (shirt number 14) moved together with his brother Guillaume Gille to HSV Hamburg in the handball Bundesliga . The brothers won the DHB Cup with HSV Hamburg in 2006 at the Final Four in the local Color Line Arena in Hamburg and the Cup Winners' Cup the following year . In the 2010/11 season he was German champion. In summer 2012 he returned to France with Guillaume to Chambéry Savoie HB, where the youngest brother Benjamin also plays. In 2015 he ended his career.

National team

Bertrand Gille in a duel on the circle

Bertrand Gille was an integral part of the successful French national team of the 2000s.

With the selection he became world champion in 2001 in his own country. At the 2006 European Championships in Switzerland , he was able to confidently defeat the reigning world champions Spain in the final. His greatest successes include two Olympic victories in 2008 and 2012 . In 2010 he was able to win the European championship again and in 2011 the world championship.

He played 268 international matches, in which he scored 806 goals.

Private

Bertrand Gille is married and has three children.

successes

Bundesliga balance sheets

season society Division Games Gates 7 meters Field gates
2002/03 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 32 154 6th 148
2003/04 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 34 139 0 139
2004/05 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 26th 126 3 123
2005/06 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 27 101 7th 94
2006/07 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 32 124 0 124
2007/08 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 29 99 3 96
2008/09 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 27 76 0 76
2009/10 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 16 25th 0 25th
2010/11 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 32 51 0 51
2011/12 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 24 40 0 40
2002–2012 total Bundesliga 279 935 19th 916

Awards

  • Knight of the French National Order of Merit (2001)
  • World handball player of the year 2002
  • Knight of the Legion of Honor (2008)
  • Honorary member of HSV Hamburg (2012)
  • Officer of the French National Order of Merit (2013)

Web links

Commons : Bertrand Gille  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bertrand Gille ( Memento from July 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b on legiondhonneur.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013 and Cérémonie de remise de décorations aux médaillés Olympiques de Londres ( Memento from March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on elysee.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013.
  3. ^ European Handball Federation - Bertrand Gille / Player. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ handball-world.com: The Gilles confirm their return to Chambéry , accessed on February 17, 2012.
  5. ↑ handball-world.com: "Giant of handball" says goodbye: Bertrand Gille ends after 19 years professional career , accessed on September 21, 2016.
World handball player of the year
Women

Svetlana Dašić-Kitić  (1988) | Kim Hyun-mee  (1989) | Jasna Kolar-Merdan  (1990) | Mia Hermansson-Högdahl  (1994) | Erzsébet Kocsis  (1995) | Lim O-kyeong  (1996) | Anja Andersen  (1997) | Trine Haltvik  (1998) | Ausra Fridrikas  (1999) | Bojana Radulovics  (2000) | Cecilie Leganger  (2001) | Zhai Chao  (2002) | Bojana Radulovics  (2003) | Anita Kulcsár  (2004) | Anita Görbicz  (2005) | Nadine Krause  (2006) | Gro Hammerseng-Edin  (2007) | Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren  (2008) | Allison Pineau  (2009) | Cristina Neagu  (2010) | Heidi Løke  (2011) | Alexandra do Nascimento  (2012) | Andrea Lekić  (2013) | Eduarda Amorim  (2014) | Cristina Neagu  (2015) | Cristina Neagu  (2016) | Cristina Neagu  (2018) | Stine Bredal Oftedal  (2019)

Men

Veselin Vujović  (1988) | Kang Jae-won  (1989) | Magnus Wislander  (1990) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1994) | Jackson Richardson  (1995) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1996) | Stéphane Stoecklin  (1997) | Daniel Stephan  (1998) | Rafael Guijosa  (1999) | Dragan Škrbić  (2000) | Yoon Kyung-shin  (2001) | Bertrand Gille  (2002) | Ivano Balić  (2003) | Henning Fritz  (2004) | Arpad Šterbik  (2005) | Ivano Balić  (2006) | Nikola Karabatić  (2007) | Thierry Omeyer  (2008) | Sławomir Szmal  (2009) | Filip Jícha  (2010) | Mikkel Hansen  (2011) | Daniel Narcisse  (2012) | Domagoj Duvnjak  (2013) | Nikola Karabatić  (2014) | Mikkel Hansen  (2015) | Nikola Karabatić  (2016) | Mikkel Hansen  (2018) | Niklas Landin Jacobsen  (2019)

Best player of all time: Gheorghe Gruia (1992), Ivano Balić and Svetlana Dašić-Kitić (2010)
personal data
SURNAME Gille, Bertrand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French handball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Valence , France