DANCETTE Blandine

Date of Birth: 14 Feb 1988

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.68/5'6''

Place of birth: FIRMINY

Birth Country:

France

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Handball	Women FRA France	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #06 HUN Hungary 29 FRA France 30	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #12 FRA France 25 ESP Spain 28	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #18 SWE Sweden 28 FRA France 28	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #21 ROC ROC 28 FRA France 27	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #26 FRA France 29 BRA Brazil 22	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Quarterfinal #32 FRA France 32 NED Netherlands 22	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Semifinal #36 FRA France 29 SWE Sweden 27	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Women's Gold Medal Match #38 ROC ROC 25 FRA France 30	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
5	Women	2012	London, GBR

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2017	Germany
2	Women	2011	Brazil
2	Women	2009	People's Republic of China

Blanchette (fhandlfh.org, 2016)

Occupation:

Logistics - INEAD, France

Languages spoken:

Nantes Atlantique Handball [France] since 2017

Olivier Krumbholz [national], FRA

Position style:

Right wing (hbcn.fr, 30 Apr 2016)

Left (lessor.fr, 26 Jan 2012)

2009 for France Against Serbia, in Italy (francefeminine.skyrock.com, 25 Jan 2010)

She suffered a ruptured posterior cruciate ligament in her knee at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (lequipe.fr, 25 Jan 2021)

National league:

French Women's Handball Championship [FRA] (Instagram profile, 14 Jul 2021)

She took up the sport at age 11. (francefeminine.skyrock.com, 25 Jan 2010)

After initially being involved with judo, she tried football at age 11 but found it hard to find a team for girls. A neighbour then suggested she try handball. "My first passion was football before I decided to take up handball. After I tried it for the first time I was hooked." (lessor.fr, 26 Jan 2012)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 13 Jul 2021)

Winning gold at the 2017 World Championship in Germany, and competing at the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016. (nahb.fr, 24 Jan 2021)

She was named French Women's Handball Championship Newcomer of the Year in 2009. (francefeminine.skyrock.com, 25 Jan 2010)

General Interest

General
RETIREMENT PLANS
In early 2021 she announced that she would retire at the end of the 2020/21 season. "It is a decision that has been carefully considered. It was already planned since last year [2020], I knew that I will stop at the end of this season. I wanted to have one last season to be able to prepare for my professional retraining a little more and to better switch to working life." She plans to work in operations management in the logistics sector. "I'm starting to know what I want and I think it can be great. I know that I can also experience great things in business, that's what I want in the future." She also says she was surprised to be given the chance to end her career at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I was already very happy to participate in the preparation. I did not necessarily expect to be selected in the 15 because I was not part of the team during recent competitions. I have worked a lot and I think I have showed on the court that I could help this team. I am delighted to be a member of the adventure." (nahb.fr, 24 Jan 2021; france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 13 Jul 2021)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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