Allison Marie Pineau (born 2 May 1989) is a French

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

er for Metz Handball and the French national team. She won gold medal at the 2017 World Championship, 2018 European Championship and 2020 Olympic Games. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2009 by the

International Handball Federation The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball's major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men's Handball C ...

Career

In March 2012, Pineau agreed with Romanian CS Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea and joined the club on 1 July 2012. Between 2013 and 2015, she played for

ŽRK Vardar ŽRK Vardar () is a Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian women's handball club from Skopje, North Macedonia. The team currently competes in the Macedonian women's First League of Handball, Women's Regional Handball League and used to be a top compet ...

and RK Krim. With

, she again reached the semifinals of the Champions League in the 2013–14 season claiming the bronze medal after beating

FC Midtjylland Football Club Midtjylland (, "Central Jutland") is a Danish professional football club based in Herning and Ikast. The club is the result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad. Midtjylland competes in the Danish Superliga, which they ...

34–31. In the summer of 2015, she returned to Romania after the three months at Nîmes in France. In 2017 she signed a contract with French team Brest Bretagne HB.

International honours

;National team * Olympics: **''Gold Medalist: 2020'' **''Silver Medalist: 2016'' *

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Gold Medalist:'' 2017 **''Silver Medalist'': 2009, 2011, 2021 * European Championship: **''Gold Medalist'': 2018 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2016 ;Club *

EHF Champions League The 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 men's com ...

: **''Bronze Medalist'':

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

**''Semifinalist'': 2013

Individual awards

* IHF World Player of the Year: 2009 *All-Star Playmaker of the World Championship: 2009, 2011 * Championnat de France Best Defender: 2018

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pineau, Allison 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Chartres Olympic handball players for France French expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia French expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia French female handball players French people of Guadeloupean descent SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea (handball) players CS Minaur Baia Mare (women's handball) players Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in handball European champions for France Mediterranean Games medalists in handball Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Handball players at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Expatriate handball players in Slovenia Expatriate handball players in North Macedonia French expatriate handball players in Romania Expatriate handball players in Montenegro 21st-century French sportswomen Brest Bretagne players Metz Handball players