Orlane Kanor

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Orlane Kanor
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Personal information
Born (1997-06-16) 16 June 1997 (age 27)
Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Nationality French
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Rapid București
Number 22
Youth career
YearsTeam
2015-2016
 Metz Handball
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2016–2022
 Metz Handball
2022–2024
 Rapid București
2024–
 Ferencvárosi TC
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–
 France 100 (225)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Germany
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Spain
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 France
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Denmark
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 12 November 2024

Orlane Kanor (born 16 June 1997) is a French handball player for Rapid București and the French national team. [1] She is a World champion from 2017 [2] and 2023 [3] and a European champion from 2018. [4]

Contents

Career

Kanor joined Metz Handball in 2015, [5] and became a part of the first team in the 2016-17 season. [6] With Metz she won the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 French championship, and the 2017, 2019 and 2022 French Cup.

In April 2021 she ruptured her Achilles. [7]

In 2022 she joined Romanian side Rapid București, [8] where she played for two years. She then joined Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC. [9]

She has one of the best jumping skills in international handball. [10]

National team

Kanor debuted for the French national team on 15 June 2017. later the same year she won the 2017 World Championship with France. [2] In 2018 she won the 2018 European Championship, beating Russia in the final 24-21. This was the first time France won the European Championship. [4]

At the 2020 European Championship she won a silver medal. [11] She scored 11 goals during the tournament. [12] The year after she won another silver medal at the 2021 World Championship, losing to Norway in the final. [13]

In 2023 she won the 2023 World Championship. [3]

At the 2024 Olympics she won silver medals with the French team. [14]

Achievements

Individual awards

Personal life

She has an identical twin sister named Laura Kanor who is a handballer for Metz Handball. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Orlane Kanor Profile". European Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "23rd Women's World Championship 2017" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation . Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Team cumulative statistics France" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 "French girls take European crown for the first time!". handball-planet.com. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Orlane Kanor : une étudiante de l'Université de Lorraine Championne du monde de Handball 2017" (in French). factuel.univ-lorraine.fr. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Handball : Orlane Kanor, la nouvelle pépite de Metz ?" (in French). republicain-lorrain.fr. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "Rückschlag für französische Nationalmannschaft: Orlane Kanor fällt langfristig aus" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  8. ↑ "Ligue féminine : Orlane Kanor quittera le Metz Handball en fin de saison" (in French). francebleu.fr. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "FTC Budapest holt vier internationale Topstars" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  10. 1 2 "Le petit monde de Laura Kanor" (in French). Republicain Lorrain. 31 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Torhüterinnen dominieren Finale: Norwegen neuer Europameister" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  12. ↑ "Women's European Handball Championship" (PDF). livecache.sportresult.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ olympics.com: Paris 2024: Medallists, retrieved 11 August 2024
  15. ↑ Décret du 23 septembre 2024 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national du Mérite.


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