Laura Flippes
| Laura Flippes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Flippes in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Laura Esther Ghislaine Flippes | ||
| Born |
13 December 1994 Strasbourg, France | ||
| Nationality | French | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right wing, Right back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Metz Handball | ||
| Number | 20 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Team | |||
– | HBC Lingolsheim | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2005–2013 | Achenheim Truchtersheim HB | ||
2013–2020 | Metz Handball | ||
2020–2023 | Paris 92 | ||
2023–2024 | CSM București | ||
2024– | Metz Handball | ||
| National team 1 | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016– | France | 141 | (278) |
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1 National team caps and goals correct as of 12 November 2024 | |||
Laura Esther Ghislaine Flippes (born 13 December 1994) is a French handballer for Metz Handball and the French national team.[1][2][3] She is an Olympic Champion from 2021, a world champion from 2017 and 2023 and European champion from 2018.[4][5]
Career
[edit]Flippes started playing handball at HBC Lingolsheim.[6] In 2005 she joined Achenheim Truchtersheim HB. Here she won the 2013 French third league. The following summer she joined top league side Metz Handball. Here she won the 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 French Championship, the 2015, 2017 and 2019 French Cup and the 2014] French League Cup.[7]
In 2020 she joined league rivals Paris 92.[6][8] In 2023 she joined Romanian CSM București.[9] Here she won the 2024 Romanian league and cup double, before returning to Metz Handball a year later.[10]
National team
[edit]Flippes played for various youth national teams.[11]
She debuted for the senior national team in June 2016 in preparation for the 2016 Olympics. At the 2016 European Championship she won bronze medals with the French team. She won the 2017 World Championship and a year later she won gold medals again at the 2018 European Championship.
At the 2020 European Championship she won silver medals.[12] The year after she won Olympic gold at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.[4] During the tournament she scored 27 goals and was selected for the tournament all star team.[13][14] Later the same year she won silver medals at the 2021 World Championship, losing the final to Norway.[15]
In 2023 she won the World Championship.[5] At the 2024 Olympics she won silvermedals with the French team.[16]
Achievements
[edit]- Championnat de France:
- Winner: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Coupe de France:
- Winner: 2015, 2017
- Coupe de la Ligue:
- Winner: 2014
Individual Awards
- All-Star Team as best Right Wing at the Olympic Games: 2020[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Laura Flippes". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2016.[dead link]
- ^ "Laura Flippes". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
- ^ "Laura Flippes" (in French). handlfh.org. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Doppel-Gold in Tokio: Frankreich holt sich auch bei den Frauen den Olympiasieg" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Team cumulative statistics France" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ a b "L'Alsacienne Laura Flippes va quitter Metz pour Paris 92 en fin de saison" (in French). dna.fr. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Laura Flippes, la gauchère caviar des Bleues" (in French). sportmag.fr. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Welt- und Europameisterin verlässt HB Metz" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "CSM Bukarest mit vier Personalentscheidungen" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "Laura Flippes de retour à Metz" (in French). handnews.fr. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ "IV Women's Youth World Championship in MNE: France" (PDF). archive.ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Laura Flippes". ffhandball.fr (in French). French Handball Federation. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Tokyo 2020 Women's All-Star Team". ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Cumulative Statistics: France" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "16:4-Spurt im Finale der Handball-WM der Frauen: Norwegen krönt sich gegen Frankreich zum Weltmeister" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ olympics.com: Paris 2024: Medallists, retrieved 11 August 2024
External links
[edit]
- Laura Flippes at the International Handball Federation
- Laura Flippes at the European Handball Federation (also at EHF Archive)
- Laura Flippes at Olympedia
- Laura Flippes at Olympics.com
- Laura Flippes at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Laura Flippes at Équipe de France (in French)
- Laura Flippes on Instagram
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