Stéphane Plantin

Stéphane Plantin

Player information
birthday	December 16, 1971
place of birth	Vitry-sur-Seine , France
citizenship	French
height	1.82 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1989-1994	USM Gagny
1994-2006	Toulouse Union Handball
National team
Debut on	1997 (until 2006)
	Games (goals)
France	72 (168)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
0000–2014	Tournefeuille handball
2014–	Grand Nancy ASPTT HB
As of June 23, 2014

Stéphane Plantin (born December 16, 1971 in Vitry-sur-Seine ) is a French handball coach and former handball player .

Career

as a player

The 1.82 m tall right wing player started in 1989 for the French club USM Gagny . In 1994, the left-hander moved to Toulouse Union Handball , with which he won the Coupe de France in 1998. In the 1998/99 European Cup Winners' Cup he reached the quarter-finals and the third round in the 2003/04 EHF Challenge Cup .

Plantin was on the French national team . Before the 2000 Olympic Games , he was the last player to be removed from the squad in favor of his rival on right winger, Stéphane Joulin . A year later he was nominated for the 2001 World Championship and went home as World Champion. In total, he played 72 international matches , in which he scored 168 goals.

as a trainer

Plantin first trained the French third division team Tournefeuille Handball. From summer 2014 he will head the second division Grand Nancy ASPTT HB.

Web links

• Stéphane Plantin in the database of the European Handball Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} www.grandnancyasptthb.com Stéphane PLANTIN, nouvel entraîneur du Grand Nancy! (French) Retrieved June 23, 2014
2. ↑ www.ladepeche.fr Stéphane Plantin le méritait bien (French) from December 15, 2000, accessed on June 23, 2014