Didier Dinart

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Didier Dinart
Didier Dinart

Didier Dinart on August 20th, 2012 at the EVFH-Cup

Player information
Nickname "The Rock"
birthday January 18, 1977
place of birth Pointe-a-Pitre , French West Indies
citizenship FrenchmanFrenchman French
height 1.97 m
Playing position Circular rotor
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1997 FranceFrance Dijon Bourgogne HB
1997-2003 FranceFrance Montpellier HB
2003-2011 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
2011–2012 SpainSpain BM Atlético de Madrid
2012-2013 FranceFrance Paris Saint-Germain
National team
Debut on December 20, 1996
against CroatiaCroatia Croatia
  Games (goals)
FranceFrance France 379 (162)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2013-2016 FranceFrance France assistant coach
2016-2020 FranceFrance France coach

As of January 28, 2020

Didier Dinart (born January 18, 1977 in Pointe-a-Pitre , Guadeloupe ) is a former French handball player and present-day coach , who played for the French national team. As a national player, he held all three major world handball titles. Dinart was considered one of the best defenders in the world. Usually he was only used in defense; but he could also play as a runner . From 2016 to 2020 he was the coach of the French national team.

Club career

Didier Dinart attacking the circle

Didier Dinart started his career at the Guadeloupe Universite HB in the French Antilles. After he had been hired at Dijon Bourgogne HB, this time on the French mainland, he finally moved to the top French club Montpellier HB . With the southern French, he won the French championship in 1997/1998, 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2001/2002 and 2002/2003. He also won the Champions League with Montpellier in 2002/2003 . In 2003 he moved to the top Spanish club BM Ciudad Real , with whom he became Spanish champions in 2003/2004, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 and again won the Champions League and the European Championship in 2005/2006 . In 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 he won the Champions League again with Ciudad Real. Due to the license transfer from Ciudad Real to Madrid, he played for BM Atlético de Madrid from 2011 to 2012. In summer 2012 he joined the French club Paris Saint-Germain , with which he won the championship in 2012/13. Then he ended his career.

National team career

Didier Dinart played 379 international matches for the French men's national handball team . He became world champion in 2001 and European champion in 2006 . In 2005 he won bronze at the World Cup. At the 2008 Olympic Games , he won the gold medal with France. In 2009 he became world champion in Croatia. In 2010 he won the European Championship in Austria. In 2011 he became world champion again with the French team in Sweden. In the summer of 2012 he won the gold medal with France at the Olympic Games in London .

Coaching career

From 2013 he worked under Claude Onesta as assistant coach of the French national team, mainly on the team's defensive work. In 2014 he won the European Championship in this role. In 2015 he won the world championship as an assistant coach. Since September 2016 he has been training the French national team as head coach together with Guillaume Gille and won the 2017 World Cup in his own country. In March 2017 he was voted IHF Trainer of the Year. At the 2018 European Handball Championship in Croatia, he won the bronze medal with the French selection. The same happened at the 2019 World Cup in Germany and Denmark , when the French selection defeated the German team with 26:25. At the European Handball Championship 2020 in Norway, Austria and Sweden, however, his team was eliminated in the preliminary round. For Dinart and his partner Gille it was the first major handball event that ended without winning a medal. Then ended his activity as national coach.

Others

He is 1.97 m tall and weighed 108 kg when he was active. Didier Dinart is married and has one daughter. He is an officer of the French National Order of Merit . Together with his partner Gille, he is the second man after Heiner Brand , who became a handball world champion as a player and coach. He's also the only one who managed to do this as an assistant coach.

Medals
National team
Olympic games
gold China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 2008 Beijing Handball
gold United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2012 London Handball
World championships
gold FranceFrance 2001 Handball
gold CroatiaCroatia 2009 Handball
gold SwedenSweden 2011 Handball
bronze PortugalPortugal 2003 Handball
bronze TunisiaTunisia 2005 Handball
European championships
gold SwitzerlandSwitzerland 2006 Handball
gold AustriaAustria 2010 Handball
bronze NorwayNorway 2008 Handball
International titles at club level
Champions League
gold 2002/03 FranceFrance Montpellier HB
gold 2005/06 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
gold 2007/08 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
gold 2008/09 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
silver 2002/03 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
silver 2010/11 SpainSpain BM Atlético de Madrid
silver 2011/12 SpainSpain BM Atlético de Madrid
Champions Trophy
gold SpainSpain 2005 León SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
gold GermanyGermany 2006 Cologne SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
gold SloveniaSlovenia 2008 Celje SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
Super Globe
gold EgyptEgypt 2007 Cairo SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
gold QatarQatar 2007 Doha SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real

literature

Web links

Commons : Didier Dinart  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. experts-handball.com: Didier Dinart ( Memento from February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. w.media Ltd NL Germany: Will Didier Dinart join the Bundesliga? Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  3. Achim Leoni: Handball star Didier Dinart: HSV is an option . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on January 15, 2018]).
  4. ^ Michael Wilkening: Handball world champion France: The future has already begun . In: Spiegel Online . January 29, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 15, 2018]).
  5. handball-world.com: Dinart confirms move to Paris , accessed on June 29, 2012
  6. handball-world.com: French league says goodbye to three big stars , accessed on June 10, 2013
  7. ^ Didier Dinart and Guillaume Gille French national coaches. September 28, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2018 (German).
  8. ^ Michael Wilkening: Handball world champion France: The future has already begun . In: Spiegel Online . January 29, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 28, 2018]).
  9. Didier Dinart handball trainer of the year - sportal.de. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  10. Sport1.de: Handball EM. France wins third place match against Denmark . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on January 28, 2018]).
  11. Handball World Cup 2019: Germany lost bronze in the last second . In: Spiegel Online . January 27, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  12. Frank Heike, Trondheim: From the handball EM: What a disgrace for the French! In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 22, 2020]).
  13. handball-world.news: France confirms change of coach: Guillaume Gille will succeed Didier Dinart . In: handball-world.news . ( handball-world.news [accessed January 28, 2020]).
  14. ^ European Handball Federation - Didier Dinart / Player. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  15. on legiondhonneur.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013 and Cérémonie de remise de décorations aux médaillés Olympiques de Londres ( Memento of March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on elysee.fr, accessed on March 21, 2013