Camille Ayglon


Camille Ayglon-Saurina is a French handball coach and former player who represented the French national team. She is a World Champions from 2017 and a European Champion from 2018. She also competed in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games.
On 1 December 2016, Ayglon-Saurina was awarded the rank of Chevalier of the French National Order of Merit.

Career

Camille Ayglon started her career in 1999 at Handball Cercle Nîmes. Between 2008 and 2010 she played for Metz Handball, before returning to HBC Nîmes. With Metz she won the 2009 French championship, the 2010 French cup and 2009 and 2010 French league cup.
In 2016 she joined Romanian CSM București. Here she won the 2017 and 2018 Romanian league and cup double and came third in the EHF Champions League in both seasons.
In July 2018 she joined Nantes Loire Atlantique Handball. She retired after the 2020–21 season.

National team

Ayglon played for various French youth teams. She debuted for the French national team on 1 March 2007 against China.
At the 2016 Olympics she won a silver medal, losing to Russia in the final. A year later she won gold medals at the 2017 World Championship. In 2018 she won another gold medal, when France won the 2018 European Championship. This was the first time, France won the European Championship.

Post-playing career

From September 2024 she became the assistant coach for the French women's youth national team.

Honours

Individual awards

Personal life

She is married to Guillaume Saurina.