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Thierry Omeyer

1976 - Today

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Thierry Omeyer (born 2 November 1976) is a retired French handball goalkeeper. A member of the French national team since 1999, he has won all major titles with the team: world champion (five times), European champion (three times) and Olympic champion twice. He is widely considered to be one of the best handball goalkeepers of all time, and was the third goalkeeper so far to have been elected best player of the world by the International Handball Federation (the two others being Henning Fritz, in 2004, and Árpád Sterbik, in 2005, since Niklas Landin in 2021), what he achieved in 2008. In his former club (THW Kiel), his nickname was Die Mauer (The Wall). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thierry Omeyer is the 23rd most popular handball player (up from 25th in 2019), the 4,854th most popular biography from France (down from 4,816th in 2019) and the most popular French Handball Player.

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS

Among handball players, Thierry Omeyer ranks 23 out of 420. Before him are Rudolf Stahl, Zoran Živković, Wilhelm Baumann, Georg Dascher, Fritz Spengler, and Wilhelm Brinkmann. After him are Staffan Olsson, Zlatko Saračević, Artur Knautz, Branislav Pokrajac, Hans Theilig, and Helmut Braselmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Thierry Omeyer ranks 185. Before him are Jimmy Jump, Sarah Chalke, Cha Tae-hyun, Kelly Macdonald, Naoki Makino, and Paulo Wanchope. After him are Gilberto, Ro Khanna, Isha Koppikar, Takashi Imoto, Angelos Basinas, and Rasho Nesterović.

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In France

Among people born in France, Thierry Omeyer ranks 4,854 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Bach (1883), Jacques Cariou (1870), Émile Wegelin (1875), Jérôme Le Banner (1972), Laurent Cantet (1961), and Ernest Esclangon (1876). After him are Georges Gandil (1926), Jean-Jacques Schuhl (1941), Patrick Chesnais (1947), Olivier Rolin (1947), Gaston Peltier (1876), and Jean Taris (1909).

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS In France

Among handball players born in France, Thierry Omeyer ranks 1. After him are Luc Abalo (1984), Guillaume Gille (1976), Bertrand Gille (1978), Jérôme Fernandez (1977), Luka Karabatic (1988), Michaël Guigou (1982), Dika Mem (1997), Vincent Gérard (1986), Ludovic Fabregas (1996), Amandine Leynaud (1986), and Nedim Remili (1995).

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