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Michaël Guigou

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Michaël Guigou is a French former handball player who now works as a coach, born in 1982. A regular member of the French national team, he was part of the squad that won Olympic gold in 2008, 2012 and 2020, world championship titles in 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017, and European championship titles in 2006, 2010 and 2014. In the final of the 2009 world championship he scored ten goals in a single match, including seven penalties from seven attempts, and he finished as the top scorer of the French team at that tournament with 52 goals. He entered the European Handball Federation Hall of Fame in 2023.

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1982 1
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    is a French former handball player
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    born 28 January 1982
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    gold medal at three Olympics (2008, 2012, and 2020), four World championships (2009, 2011, 2015, and 2017)
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