The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from Martinique
This page contains a list of the greatest Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 304 Handball Players, 2 of which were born in Martinique. This makes Martinique the birth place of the 23rd most number of Handball Players behind Ukraine and South Korea.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Cédric Sorhaindo (1984 - )
With an HPI of 35.72, Cédric Sorhaindo is the most famous Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Cédric Sorhaindo (born 7 June 1984) is a French handball player for Beşiktaş. He won with the France national team gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship in Croatia and the 2015 World Handball Championships in Qatar. Sorhaindo is playing in FC Barcelona, where he won 3 EHF Champions League titles and 11 Liga ASOBAL.
2. Joël Abati (1970 - )
With an HPI of 35.38, Joël Abati is the 2nd most famous Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Joël Marc Abati (born 25 April 1970) is a French handball player who has played ten years for SC Magdeburg in Germany until 2007. After returning to France and playing two years for Montpellier HB he ended his professional career in 2009, having won numerous prizes for his clubs and his country. In November 2019 he signed as trainer for the Belgian club Sporting Pelt. With France national team he is Olympic champion in 2008, World champion in 2001 and 2009 and European champion in 2006.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as handball players born between 1970 and 1984. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living handball players include Cédric Sorhaindo and Joël Abati.
