Valentin Porte (born 7 September 1990) 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 ...

player for

Montpellier Handball Montpellier Handball, formerly named Montpellier Agglomération Handball, is a professional handball club from Montpellier, France. Montpellier is the only French club to ever have won the EHF Champions League. History The team was founded as ...

. He won the European title in 2014, the world title in 2015 and 2017, and an Olympic gold medal in 2020. He also won

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 ...

in 2018 with Montpellier. He normally plays as a right wing, but can also play as a right back.

Career

Porte senior debut came in the French top flight, Starligue, in 2008 for

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. In the summer of 2016 he joined league rivals

. Here, he won the

in 2018.

National team

He debuted for the French national team in 2013, and his first major international tournament was the

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the same year. In 2015, he won the World Championship in Qatar. At the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, he won a silver medal with the french team, and was in the tournament all-star team.

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* 1990 births Living people French male handball players Sportspeople from Versailles, Yvelines Olympic handball players for France Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in handball Montpellier Handball players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-handball-bio-stub