Lucie Granier

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Lucie Granier
Lucie Granier 2022-02-16.jpg
Granier in 2022
Personal information
Born (1999-06-11) 11 June 1999 (age 26)
Marseille, France
Nationality French
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Right wing
Club information
Current club Metz Handball
Number 28
Youth career
YearsTeam
2010-2017
Handball Plan-de-Cuques
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2017–2023
ESBF Besançon
2023–
Metz Handball
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–
France 55 (107)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Spain
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Germany/Netherlands
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 12 November 2024

Lucie Granier (born 11 June 1999) is a French handball player for Metz Handball and the French national team. [1] [2]

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Club career

Granier started her professional career in 2017, when she played for ESBF Besançon. [2]

In 2023, she joined Metz Handball. [3] Here she won the 2024 French championship and cup double.

International career

Granier has previously played for various French youth teams. [4] [5]

On 6 October 2021, she made her debut for the French senior national team against Czechia. [6] At the 2021 World Championship she won silver medals with the French team, when the lost to Norway in the final. [7] [8] At the 2023 World Championship she won gold medals. [9]

At the 2024 Olympics at home soil she won silver medals, once again losing to Norway in the final. [10]

For the 2025 World Championship she won bronze medals losing to Germany in the semifinal and beating Netherlands in extra time in the third place playoff. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Lucie Granier - Career & Statistics". European Handball Federation . Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 "DHDb profil". Damehåndbolddatabasen. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "Lucie Granier, première recrue messine !" (in French). Metz Handball . Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "IHF Women's Junior (U20) World Championship: France vs. Romania" (PDF). archive.ihf.info. International Handball Federation . Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Team cumulative statistics: France" (PDF). archive.ihf.info (in French). International Handball Federation . Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  6. ↑ "Une jeunesse éclatante" (in French). handlfh.org. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Alicia Toublanc et Lucie Granier font la paire" (in French). handlfh.org. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "16:4-Spurt im Finale der Handball-WM der Frauen: Norwegen krönt sich gegen Frankreich zum Weltmeister" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  9. ↑ "Team cumulative statistics France" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "Paris 2024: Medallists" (PDF). olympics.com. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "Extra-time thriller sees France clinch podium place". international Handball Federation. 14 December 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025.