These are impressive statistics which say a lot about the level of performance and consistency of the French women's handball team, which lost by one goal to Hungary (25-24) in the small final. for the bronze medal, Sunday December 16, at Euro 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
Over the last 12 major international competitions, French handball players have won 9 medals, including 4 gold, and played in no less than 10 finals (Olympics 2016, Euro 2016, World Cup 2017, Euro 2018, Euro 2020, Olympic Games 2021 and World Cup 2021, Euro 2022, World Cup 2023 and Olympic Games 2024).
If the quality of the game offered by the Bleues helps in part to explain these results over the last eight years, i.e. two Olympics, we must in reality look for the reason in the excellence of the women's training sector, set up by the French Handball Federation, and the way in which it contributes to perpetuating this series.
Detection plays a crucial role
Among the Olympic champion players in 2021 in Tokyo, some were not in Rio, five years earlier, for the silver medal, and others were absent this summer at the Paris 2024 Olympics when the Blue finished on the second step of the podium behind Norway. Such is the life of a selection.
