Bertrand Gille

Bertrand Gille (born 24 March 1978 in Valence, Drôme) is a retired French handball player, a pivot who stood 1.87 metres tall and weighed 98 kilograms and who was named IHF World Player of the Year in 2002. He began at HBC Loriol in 1984, played for Chambéry SH from 1996 to 2002 and then for HSV Hamburg, came back to Chambéry in 2012 and retired in 2015. A member of the French national team from 1997, he won the Olympic handball competition at Beijing in 2008, where he was also named best pivot of the tournament, and again at London in 2012, and he was part of the side that won the 2010 European Championship. His brothers Guillaume and Benjamin also played handball, and he shared a team with Guillaume at each of his three clubs.