Claude Onesta

Claude Onesta

Claude Onesta (born February 6, 1957) is a former French handball player and current head coach for the French national handball team.^[1]

He is, with Vladimir Maksimov, the only coach to have obtained the three major titles in handball: European champion (twice, in 2006 and 2010), world champion (twice, in 2009 and 2011) ) and Olympic champion (in 2008). More prominently, he is the first coach for a French national team (and the first coach for a handball national team in the world) to have held (and currently hold) these three titles simultaneously.

Earlier on, he led the French team to bronze medals at the 2003 World Men's Handball Championship in Portugal, and again at the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship in Tunisia. Under his supervision, the French team also obtained the bronze medal at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship in Norway.

Trivia

He is cousin to Gérard Onesta

References

1. ^ "France" – European Handbal Federation (2008) (Retrieved on February 1, 2008)

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