Levallois Sporting Club

Last updated
Levallois Sporting Club
Full nameLevallois Sporting Club
Founded1983
ChairmanJean-Pierre Aubry
Website Club website

The Levallois Sporting Club is a multi-sport athletic club located in Levallois-Perret, France. Founded in 1983, it is now organised into 32 sports and counts 14,500 members. It is one of the most important sports club in France and one that links amateurs and professionals. Among the notable members of the club are Teddy Riner, Marie-Claire Restoux and Jean-Philippe Gatien.

Contents

History

The Levallois Sporting Club was created in 1983. Before that, the club was called Entente Sportive Levalloisienne. At first, 12 sports were represented. By the way of its first president Patrick Balkany, the club grew quickly into a professional club. In 1988, eight Levalloisiens were selected for the Seoul Olympics. At this event, Frédéric Delpla, a fencer, became the first olympic champion of the club. Nowadays, the club is one of the most important in France with 14 500 members [1] and a string of well-known sportsmen like Teddy Riner [2] or Maureen Nisima.

Chairmen

Sections

The club's former basketball section merged with Paris Basket Racing in 2007 to form Paris-Levallois Basket, which in turn renamed itself Levallois Metropolitans in 2017 and Metropolitans 92 in 2019.

Achievements

Since 1983, the Levallois Sporting Club has won 24 Olympic medals, 146 world championships medals and 130 European championships medals. Its most famous discipline are fencing, judo and table tennis. [3] [4] [5]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Levallois-Perret</span> Commune in Île-de-France, France

Levallois-Perret is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies on the right bank of the Seine, some 6 km (3.7 mi) from the centre of Paris in the north-western suburbs of the French capital. It is the most densely populated town in Europe and, together with neighbouring Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the most expensive suburbs of Paris.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laura Flessel-Colovic</span> French politician and fencer

Laura Flessel-Colovic is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, with five. Before 2007, she was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club Escrime, and now works with Lagardère Paris Racing. She is married and has one daughter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paris Basket Racing</span> Basketball team in Paris, France

Paris Basket Racing, or PBR, was a French professional basketball club from Paris. It was founded in 1922, as the basketball section of the multi-sports club Racing Club de Paris. The team took the name "Paris Basket Racing" in 2000. In 2007, the club merged with another club from the Paris area, Levallois Sporting Club Basket, to form the current version of the club, known first as Paris-Levallois Basket, and later as Levallois Metropolitans and Metropolitans 92.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stade Pierre de Coubertin (Paris)</span> Sports arena in Paris, France

The Stade Pierre de Coubertin is an indoor arena that is located in Paris, France. It is the home venue of the Paris Saint-Germain Handball team. Currently, the arena has a seating capacity of 4,200 people for basketball games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boris Diaw</span> French basketball executive and former player

Boris Babacar Diaw-Riffiod, better known as Boris Diaw, is a French basketball executive and former player who is the president of Metropolitans 92 of LNB Pro A. Diaw began his playing career in Pro A and returned to that league after 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played mostly at the power forward position. In 2006, Diaw was named the NBA's Most Improved Player as a member of the Phoenix Suns. He won an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2002 South American Games</span> Multi-sport event in Brazil

The VII South American Games were a multi-sport event held in 2002 in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, and Belém; all in Brazil. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR). An appraisal of the games and detailed medal lists were published elsewhere, emphasizing the results of the Argentinian teams.

Sport in Belgium plays a prominent role in the society. As of 2010, Belgium counted around 17,000 sport clubs with approximately 1.35 million members, or about 13% of the Belgian population. Popular sports in Belgium are, among others: football, cycling, tennis, table tennis, athletics, swimming, basketball, badminton, judo, hockey, rowing, motocross, auto racing, volleyball, and running. Belgium has organized the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp as well as the 1972 UEFA European Championship and the 2000 UEFA European Championship along with the Netherlands. The Belgium national football team's best result was a 3rd place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and a second place of the 1980 UEFA European Championship. Belgian football clubs have won 3 times the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and twice the UEFA Cup, plus 3 times the UEFA Supercup.

Sport in France plays an important role in French society, which is reflected in its popularity among the French people and the nation's strong sporting history. Various types of sports are played and followed in France, notably cycling, football, and handball, which has earned France eight victories in world championships and five Olympic medals. France is also the three-time European champion of handball.

Sport in Romania are an important part of the country's culture. Romania has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades. Association football is the most popular sport in Romania, a nation of 20 million. The most successful club is Steaua Bucharest, who were the first Eastern European side to win the European Cup and the European Supercup in 1986. Romania is one of only four national teams from Europe that took part in the first World Cup in 1930. The Romania national football team has taken part in seven FIFA World Cups and had its most successful run during the 1990s, when they reached the quarterfinals of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, losing to Sweden in the penalty shootout. Romania was ranked third by FIFA in 1997.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Teddy Riner</span> French judoka

Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner is a French judoka. He has won eleven World Championships gold medals, the first and only judoka to do so, and three Olympic gold medals. He has also won five gold medals at the European Championships. He was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club before joining Paris Saint-Germain in August 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patrick Balkany</span> French politician

Patrick Balkany is a French politician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Metropolitans 92</span> Basketball team in Hauts-de-Seine, France

Metropolitans 92 is a French professional basketball club that is based in Levallois-Perret, in the Paris metropolitan area. The club currently plays in the LNB Pro A, the highest-tier level in French basketball.

INSEP, the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance, is a French training institute and center for excellence in sports that trains elite athletes. It is located on the outskirts of Paris, in the Bois de Vincennes.

The Levallois Sporting Club Escrime is a fencing club linked to the Levallois Sporting Club. It's one of the biggest fencing club in the world with 800 members. The president is Jean-Jacques Poulain and Frederic Delpla is manager. Among the champions of the club, you can count Maureen Nisima, Gauthier Grumier and Ulrich Robeiri.

The Levallois Sporting Club Judo is a judo club affiliated to the Levallois Sporting Club. It's one of the biggest judo club in France with 800 members. Champions of the club include Teddy Riner, Gévrise Émane and Benjamin Darbelet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yannick Borel</span> French fencer

Yannick Borel is a French right-handed épée fencer.

Yves-Matthieu Dafreville is a French judoka, who played for the middleweight category. He is also a member of the Levallois Sporting Club in Levallois-Perret, France, and is coached and trained by Patrick Rosso and Stéphane Fremont.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hisayoshi Harasawa</span> Japanese judoka

Hisayoshi Harasawa is a Japanese judoka. Harasawa was considered a staple of Japanese heavyweight judo throughout the 2010s decade.

Paris Saint-Germain Judo, commonly known as PSG Judo, is a French professional judo club based in the city of Paris in France. It is the judo department of Paris Saint-Germain. Having already existed between 1992 and 2003, the club was refounded in 2017. Their home ground is the CMG Dojo, located inside the CMG Sports Club One Italie complex. It houses the club's youth system, the Paris Saint-Germain Judo School, as well as high level training facilities for the club's professional judokas.

Levallois Sporting Club Basket, abbreviated as either LCB Basket or Levallois SCB, is a French basketball club that is based in Levallois, Paris, France. It is the men's basketball section of the French multi-sport club Levallois Sporting Club.

References

  1. "Ville de Levallois: Historique du Club". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
  2. "Teddy Riner signe 4 ans à Levallois" . Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. "Judo : Gévrise Emane sacrée championne du monde". 25 August 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2016 via Le Monde.
  4. "Gauzy en perf - Tennis de table - ITTF World Tour - L'EQUIPE.FR" . Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  5. "L'Escrime brille à Levallois". Archived from the original on 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2012-03-20.