Christophe Maurice Jean Kempé, nicknamed 'Tito' (born 2 May 1975) is a French for
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 ...
player. He won a gold medal as a member of France's national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Kempés senior debut came at
USAM Nîmes
The United Autonomous Unions of Madagascar (USAM) is a national trade union center in Madagascar. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation
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in the highest French league. A year later he joined
Sporting Toulouse 31
Fenix Toulouse Handball is a French handball team based in Toulouse, that plays in the LNH Division 1.
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, where he won the French cup in 1998. In 1999 he joined
Bidasoa Irún
CD Bidasoa Irun is a team of handball based in Irún, Spain. It plays in Liga ASOBAL.
History
The Basque club was founded in 1962. Five years after its foundation, CD Bidasoa managed to get promoted to the second division and after the 1969/1 ...
in Spain.
Two years later he returned to Toulouse, where he played until 2010.
In May 2024 in the leadup to the
2024 Olympics
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he was one of the people carrying the Olympic torch.
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1975 births
Living people
French male handball players
Olympic handball players for France
Olympic gold medalists for France
Olympic medalists in handball
Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Aubervilliers
French expatriate handball players in Spain
USAM Nîmes Gard players
Fenix Toulouse Handball players
CD Bidasoa Irun players
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Liga ASOBAL players
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