Melvyn Richardson (born 31 January 1997) is a French professional

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 for

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

and the French national team.

Personal life

He is the son of retired French handball player Jackson Richardson.

Career

In 2021 he joined Spanish top team

. Here he won the

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

and 2024 Champion Leagues and the

Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of ...

, Copa ASOBAL and

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

every season at the club. From the 2025-26 season he will join the Polish team

Wisła Płock Wisła Płock Spółka Akcyjna (Wisła Płock S.A.), commonly referred to as Wisła Płock (), is a Polish professional football club based in Płock, Masovian Voivodeship. They will compete in the Ekstraklasa in the 2025–26 season after wi ...

National team

Melvyn Richardson debuted for the French national team on June 17th, 2017 against Belgium. His first major international tournament was the 2019 World Championship. In September 2021 he won Olympic gold medals at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. For this he was made a knight of the French Legion of Honour.. At the 2024 European Championship he won a second gold medal with French team. He played 8 matches and scored 16 goals. At the 2025 World Championship he won a bronze medal, losing to Croatia in the semifinal and beating Portugal in the third place playoff. He played all 9 games, scoring 30 goals.

Achievements

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 ...

: **''Winner'':

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

: **''Winner'': 2022, 2023, 2024 * Copa ASOBAL: **''Winner'': 2022, 2023, 2024 *

: ** ''Winner'': 2022, 2023, 2024 * Supercopa Ibérica: **''Winner'': 2022, 2023

International

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 ...

: **''Bronze Medalist'':

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

* Junior World Championship: **''Bronze Medalist'':

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

* Youth World Championship: **''Gold Medalist'':

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

* Youth European Championship: **''Gold Medalist'': 2014

Individual

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Final four: 2023–24 * All-Star Right Back of the Youth European Championship: 2014 * MVP of the Youth World Championship:

* Best young player of the

LNH Division 1 LNH Division 1, doing business as Starligue and currently known as Liqui Moly Starligue for sponsorship reasons, is the premier men's professional handball league in France. It is administered by the Ligue Nationale de Handball, under delegatio ...

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* 1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Marseille French male handball players Montpellier Handball players FC Barcelona Handbol players French expatriate handball players in Spain Liga ASOBAL players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic medalists in handball Olympic handball players for France 21st-century French sportsmen Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Black French sportspeople Chambéry Savoie Mont-Blanc Handball players French people of Réunion descent {{France-handball-bio-stub