Méline Nocandy (born 25 February 1998) is a French female

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er for Brest Bretagne Handball and the French national team. She is a World Champion from

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and an Olympic champion from

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Career

Nocandy played on Guadeloupe based team Zayen La. In 2015 she joined

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. She started at Metz' B-team and was later promoted to the first team. With Metz she won the French championship every year from 2016 to 2019 and again in 2022. She also won the 2017, 2019 and 2022 French Cup. In 2022 she joined league rivals

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. In September 2022 she had a knee injury that kept her out for several months. In 2024 he joined Brest Bretagne Handball.

National team

Nocandy played for the French youth team, where she won the U-19 World Championship in 2017. In the final she was named player of the match. Nocandy was included in the French Golden League 2019 team to replace the injured Grâce Zaadi, where she debuted for French national team on 21 March 2019 against Romania. She represented France at the 2019 World Championship, where France finished on a disappointing 13th place. She played 7 games, scoring 14 goals. A year later she won a silver medal at the 2020 European Championship. At the 2021 Olympics she won gold medals with the French team. She scored 15 goals at the tournament. For this win she was named a ''Chevalier'' of the French

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. Later the same year she won silver medals at the 2021 World Championship. In 2023 she won the 2023 World Championship. At the

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she won silver medals with the French team.

Achievements

Club

International

* EHF Champions League: ** Bronze'':'' 2022 (with

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Domestic

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(''Division 1 Féminine''): ** Winner : 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 (with

) ** Tied 1st: 2020 (with

) ** Runner up: 2021 (with

) * French Division 3 (''Championnat de France de Nationale 1''): ** Winner : 2015 (with Zayan LA ; youth team) * French Cup (''Coupe de France''): ** Winner : 2017, 2019 and 2022 (with

) ** Runner up: 2023 (with

)

National team

Senior

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Youth

* U-19 European Handball Championship: **

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Awards and recognition

Individual

* French Championship ** Hope of the Season: 2018-2019

State and civic honours

* Inducted into the

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with the rank of Chevalier: 2021

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nocandy, Meline 1998 births Living people French female handball players Guadeloupean female handball players People from Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe Black French sportspeople French people of Guadeloupean descent Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic handball players for France Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France 21st-century French sportswomen Brest Bretagne players Metz Handball players