Kentin Mahé

Kentin Mahé (born 22 May 1991) is a French handball player for Telekom Veszprém and the French national team.[1][2]

Kentin Mahé
Mahé with SG Flensburg-Handewitt in 2016
Personal information
Born (1991-05-22) 22 May 1991
Paris, France
Nationality French
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Centre back/Left Wing
Club information
Current club Telekom Veszprém
Number 35
Youth career
Years Team
1997–1999
 AS Monaco
1999–2000
 ASPTT Nice
2000–2008
 TSV Bayer Dormagen
2008
 Hammarby IF
2009
 TSV Bayer Dormagen
Senior clubs
Years Team
2009–2011
 DHC Rheinland
2011–2013
 VfL Gummersbach
2013–2015
 HSV Hamburg
2015–2018
 SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2018–
 Telekom Veszprém
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–
 France 102 (346)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 TokyoTeam
Silver medal – second place2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Championship
Gold medal – first place2015 Qatar
Gold medal – first place2017 France
Silver medal – second place2023 Poland/Sweden
Bronze medal – third place2019 Germany/Denmark
European Championship
Bronze medal – third place2018 Croatia

Early life

Kentin Mahé was born in Paris and started to play handball at age six in AS Monaco, before briefly representing ASPTT Nice. In 2000, he moved to Germany where he grew up, due to his father Pascal Mahé, a former handball player, taking up several managerial positions in the country.[3]

His maternal grandmother is from Sweden and he lived in Stockholm for four months in 2008, aged 18, playing youth handball with then reigning national champions Hammarby IF.[3]

Career

Mahé returned to Germany in 2009 and made his senior debut for DHC Rheinland, before enjoying stints in VfL Gummersbach and HSV Hamburg.[3]

In 2015, he signed with the German top club SG Flensburg-Handewitt where he developed into a world class-player under the management of Ljubomir Vranjes. He joined the Hungarian club Telekom Veszprém on 1 July 2018.[3]

Achievements

National team

Domestic competitions

Individual awards

References
  1. "2017 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  2. "Profile". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. "EXTRA: Kentin Mahé lämnar Flensburg för Veszprém" (in Swedish). Handbollskanalen. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  4. "EHF Champions League Men 2021/22 All-star Team awarded". European Handball Federation. 17 June 2022.
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