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Thierry Omeyer

1976 - Today

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Thierry Omeyer (born 2 November 1976) is a retired French handball goalkeeper. A member of the French national team since 1999, he has won all major titles with the team: world champion (five times), European champion (three times) and Olympic champion twice.He is widely considered to be one of the best handball goalkeepers of all time, and is the third goalkeeper so far to have been elected best player of the world by the International Handball Federation (the two others being Henning Fritz, in 2004, and Árpád Sterbik, in 2005), what he achieved in 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thierry Omeyer has received more than 189,706 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Thierry Omeyer is the 18th most popular handball player (up from 25th in 2019), the 4,403rd most popular biography from France (down from 4,179th in 2019) and the most popular French Handball Player.

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS

Among handball players, Thierry Omeyer ranks 18 out of 304Before him are Zinaida Turchyna, Zlatko Saračević, Edgar Reinhardt, Wilhelm Brinkmann, Wilhelm Baumann, and Ștefan Birtalan. After him are Svetlana Kitić, Branislav Pokrajac, Guðmundur Guðmundsson, Karl Kreutzberg, Günther Ortmann, and Jackson Richardson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Thierry Omeyer ranks 168Before him are Zemfira, Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Traianos Dellas, Marco Di Vaio, Andrea Stramaccioni, and Stephanie McMahon. After him are Jaleel White, Ricardo Zonta, Jada Fire, Djamel Belmadi, Stefan Holm, and Daisuke Namikawa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Thierry Omeyer ranks 4,403 out of 6,011Before him are Charles Berling (1958), Fritz Keller (1913), Georges de la Falaise (1866), André Bonin (1909), Yannick Dalmas (1961), and Philippe Rousselot (1945). After him are Élodie Bouchez (1973), Guillaume Bieganski (1932), Francis Girod (1944), Kevin Gameiro (1987), Florence Devouard (1968), and Dayot Upamecano (1998).

Among HANDBALL PLAYERS In France

Among handball players born in France, Thierry Omeyer ranks 1After him are Luc Abalo (1984), Guillaume Gille (1976), Luka Karabatic (1988), Bertrand Gille (1978), Jérôme Fernandez (1977), Michaël Guigou (1982), Vincent Gérard (1986), Kentin Mahé (1991), Dika Mem (1997), Ludovic Fabregas (1996), and Amandine Leynaud (1986).

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