Éric Quintin

Éric Quintin
With his team's jersey.
Personal information
Born (1967-01-22) 22 January 1967
Aix-en-Provence
Nationality French
Playing position Left wing
Senior clubs
Years Team
?-1984
Aix Université Club
1984-1991
SMUC Marseille
1991-1996
OM-Vitrolles
1996-?
Aix Université Club
National team
Years Team Apps
1988–1996
France 216 (277)[1]
Teams managed
1996-2006
Aix Université Club
2010-2021
France youth
Medal record
Representing France
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona
World Championship
1993 Sweden
1995 Iceland
Goodwill Games
1994 St-Petersburg

Éric Quintin (born 22 January 1967) is a French handball player and coach.

Career

National team

With the French national team, he won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics,[2] a silver medal at the 1993 World Championship, a gold medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games and at 1995 World Championship

Club career

With clubs, he started at his home town club Aix Université Club, before joining for SMUC Marseille[3] who became OM-Vitrolles in 1991. With this club, he won the EHF Cup Winner's Cup, the French league in 1994, 1996 and the Coupe de France: in 1993 and 1995. In 1996 he returned to Aix Université Club as a Player-coach.[4]

Coaching career

From 1996 to 2000 he was the player coach for Aix Université Club, before becoming the full time coach from 2000 to 2006. From 2010 he has been coach of the French youth teams as well as the France men's national beach handball team.[5]

In 2014 he led the French U18 team to the European Men's Junior Handball Championship title with players such as Ludovic Fabregas, Dika Mem and Melvyn Richardson.[6] In 2015 he led the team to the World Men's Junior Handball Championship title.[7]

In 2016 he won the European Junior Championship again with players such as Dylan Nahi and Elohim Prandi,[8] and in 2017 he won his second World Junior title.[9]

He stopped being the French youth coach in 2021 and was replaced by Pascal Person.[10]

Accomplishments

  • EHF Cup Winner's Cup:
    • Winner (1): 1993 (as OMV)
    • Runners-up (1): 1994 (as OMV)
  • French league:
    • Winner (7): 1965, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1984 (as SMUC) ; 1994, 1996 (as OMV)
    • Runners-up (3): 1983 (as SMUC) ; 1993, 1995 (as OMV)
  • Coupe de France:
    • Winner (3): 1976 (as SMUC) ; 1993, 1995 (as OMV)
    • Runners-up (2): 1992, 1996 (as OMV)

References

  1. ^ "Liste des internationaux français jusqu'en 2002" (in French). Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Éric Quintin". Olympedia.org. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Mutations" (in French). gallica.bnf.fr. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Que sont-ils devenus?" (in French). gallica.bnf.fr. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  5. ^ "France embarks on its first beach handball adventure". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Minne shoots France to gold at Men's 18 EHF EURO 2014". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  7. ^ "2015 MEN'S YOUTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN RUS" (PDF). International Handball Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.
  8. ^ "France claim gold at Men's 18 EHF EURO 2016". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  9. ^ "Frankreich bei U19-WM mit jüngstem Gaudin-Sohn" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  10. ^ "EdFM - U19M – Régularité nécessaire à l'assaut du grand bain".