Jackson Richardson

Jackson Richardson is a player of Handball French. Captain of the team of France of handball, it was selected to be the carry-flag of the delegation of the French sportsmen at the time of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games of Athens, the August 13rd 2004. After several seasons abroad, it returns to play in France in 2005 with the Chambéry Savoy Handball.

Biography

Born the June 14th 1969 with Saint-Pierre (Meeting), the Jackson young person discovers the handball at six years. It is detected in 1988, the day of the finale of Main road 3 by Daniel Costantini, the selector of the team of France, which must choose a player réunionnais for the Bataillon of Joinville. Richardson signs then in Paris-Asnières in 1989. Notoriety is immediately with go since it integrates the team of France at this time. Two years later, it joined the team of OM-Vitrolles and its prize list grows rich by the championship of France 1994 and 1996, by the Cuts of France 1993 and 1995 and by the Cut of the Cuts 1993. Thereafter, it leaves to play in Germany in the club of Grosswallstadt with which it gains the Cut of the Cities in 2000. The apotheosis will be in Spain, where it will join the Club of San Antonio Pampelune, with the key, a league of the champions gained vis-a-vis the ogre inhabitant of Barcelona and a championship of Spain the year according to. From the point of view of his international career, Richardson also has an incredible prize list: world champion in 1995 and 2001 (and four other podiums in 1993,1997,2003 and 2005), a bronze medal with the OJ of 1992 in Barcelona, an in an individual capacity of better player of the world in 1995 and the honorary title champions of the French champions decreed by the newspaper the team. With more than four hundred selections, he is by far the recordman for the team of France. Its style all in improvisation and its instinct do of him one of the players most endowed with his generation. However, it is as by a keen work as it succeeded in reaching this level of excellence, which still enables him at 35 years to dominate the world handball. It signed for two years in Chambéry Savoy HandBall Club (Seasons 2005/2006 & 2006/2007) where it will find inter alia its accomplices Stephan Stoecklin and Laurent Munier. Whereas it was to put a term at its career, it decides to prolong the experiment in Chambéry where it will be joined besides by another Réunionnais in the person of Daniel Narcisse.

Equip with France

  • First selection: January 10th, 1990 against Algeria
  • Goals in team of France: 787 (five penalties)
  • Selections in team of France: 417
  • Date of its last match in international competition: February 5th, 2005 in Tunisia against Croatia

Successive clubs

Prize list

  • 2 Championships of the World (1995, 2001)
  • 1 Supercoupe d' Europe (2000 with San Antonio Pampelune)
  • 1 League of Champions EHF (2001 with San Antonio Pampelune)
  • 2 Cuts of Europe of the Victorious Clubs of Cuts (1993 with the OM Vitrolles, 2004 with San Antonio Pampelune)
  • 1 Cut of Europe of the Cities (2000 with TV Groswallstadt)
  • 2 Championships of France (1994, 1996)
  • 2 Championship of Spain (2003, 2005)
  • 2 Cuts of France (1993, 1995)
  • 1 Cut from Spain (2001)
  • 2 Supercoupes of Spain (2001, 2002)
  • Bronze medal with the Olympic Games (1992)
  • Vice-Champion of the World (1993)
  • Triple bronze medal with the Championships of the World (1997, 2003,2005)
  • Finalist of the League of the Champions (2003)

Distinctions

  • Player IHF of the year (1995)
  • Better player of the Championship of the World (1990)
  • Better center-half of the Championship of the World (1995)
  • Better center-half of the Championship of Europe (2000)
  • Better foreigner of the Championship of Spain (2001, 2002)
  • Better center-half of the Championship of Spain (2003, 2004,2005)
  • French Player of the century according to FFHB
  • Champions of the French champions (2001)
  • Knight of the Legion of honor

External bond

  • the official site of Jackson Richardson

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