Amandine Suzanne Monique Leynaud (born 2 May 1986) is a French professional

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player. She is openly lesbian and she and her wife Annabelle are parents to Marcel and Mila.

Career

She competed at the

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and

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and won a silver medal in 2016, finishing fifth in 2008 and 2012. Domestically she was named the Best Goalkeeper in French Division 1 in 2009, 2010 and 2011.Amandine Leynaud
. nbcolympics.com At the 2008 Olympics, both Leynaud and teammate

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were listed among the top goalkeepers in the competition. After Nicolas retired from the national team, Leynaud's status as starting goalkeeper was secured. At the 2012 Olympics, Leynaud was listed third among the top ten goalkeepers of the championship with a rate of 38%. For the 2012–13 season, Leynaud signed for Romanian top club

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but failed to play any official match after she suffered a ligaments injury to the right ankle in August 2012, which required surgery. The team was disbanded at the end of the season due to financial difficulties. Due to her injury Leynaud also missed the 2012 European Championships. Since 2013 until 2018, she played for

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. Together with them, she played in Final Four five-times in a row, finishing third three-times and reaching the final twice (in

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and in

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). In 2018, she joined the star-studded Hungarian team,

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. Since 2020, she also served as the goalkeeper coach of the team until 2022, when she retired. One year after she has ended her career she returned to Győr because of

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's pregnancy.

Achievements

EHF Champions League The Men's EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the me ...

: **''Winner'': 2019 *French Championship: **''Winner'': 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 *French Cup: **''Winner'': 2010 *French League Cup: **''Winner'': 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Hungarian Championship **''Winner'': 2019,

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Hungarian Cup The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...

: **''Winner'': 2019, 2021

Individual awards

* Handball-Planet.com All-Star Goalkeeper: 2017 * MVP of the EHF Champions League Final Four: 2018 * All-Star Goalkeeper of the

Møbelringen Cup The Intersport Cup, formerly known as the Møbelringen Cup, is an annual women's handball tournament arranged by the Norwegian Handball Federation. Norway plus three invited national teams compete for the title, normally in a single round-robin for ...

: 2018 * All-Star Goalkeeper of the European Championship:

* All-Star Goalkeeper of the

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References

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