Cédric Burdet (born 15 November 1974) is a retired 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 ...

player who played most of his career in French handball team Montpellier HB until his retirement in 2009 (with a national championship victory). He also played for Chambéry Savoie Handball in France and

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in Germany. His career with the

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(from 1997 to 2008) included three Olympic Games, including winning the gold medal at the

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, where he was instrumental to the victory of France against

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in the semi-finals where he scored 5 goals in the first half, and in the final against Iceland, where he scored 4 goals.

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