Antoine Brizard

Antoine Arthur Fabien Brizard, born on 22 May 1994, is a French professional volleyball player who plays as a setter and captains the France national team. He has won two Olympic gold medals with France in the men's tournament, at Tokyo 2020 and at Paris 2024, and was named best setter at the Paris Games. His club career has taken him from Paris Volley, where he won the CEV Cup in 2013-14 and several French titles, through Spacer's de Toulouse, Onico Warsaw, Zenit Saint Petersburg and Gas Sales Piacenza to Osaka Bluteon in Japan, with a Polish championship in 2018-19, an Italian Cup in 2022-23 and a Japanese championship in 2025-26 along the way. Individual honours include best setter at the 2011 FIVB U19 World Championship, most valuable player of the 2024 FIVB Nations League and best setter at the 2026 CEV European Championship. In 2021 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.