Coralie Lassource
Coralie Gladys Lassource is a French handball player who plays for Brest Bretagne Handball and the France women's national [handball team|French national team] as a left wing. She is the older sister of handballer Déborah Lassource, who plays for German club Borussia Dortmund as a left back.
Handball career
Lassource started playing handball at the age of 10. She later joined the 2nd team of Issy-Paris Hand, where she eventually made her senior debut. In 2010, she won the second league with the club. In 2013, she won the French League Cup. In the same season, the team reached the final of the EHF Cup Winners' Cup, where they lost to Austrian Hypo NÖ.She competed at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship in Denmark.
In 2017, she joined Hungarian side Érd HC.
She became the captain of Brest Bretagne Handball when she joined the team in 2019. In 2021, she won the French championship with the club.
She was the captain of the French national handball team from June 2021 for the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2020 Summer Olympics] during which the team won their first Olympic gold medal, until September 2022, a few months before the Euro 2022.
Her younger sister Déborah Lassource is also a professional handball player. They used to play together at Issy Paris Hand. Their mother also used to play handball.
She wears a number 10 jersey for Brest Bretagne Handball and a number 8 jersey for the national team.
Achievements
Club
International
- EHF Champions League
- * Finalist: 2021
- EHF Cup Winners' Cup
- *Runner up: 2013 EHF Challenge Cup
- * Runner up: 2014
- * 1/2 Finalist: 2014, 2015, 2016
Domestic
French league :- * Winner : 2021
- * Tied 1st: 2020
- * Runner up: 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2022
- * 3rd: 2017 French Cup :
- * Winner : 2021
- * Runner up: 2014 and 2017 French Women's League Cup Championship :
- * Winner : 2013
National team
Olympic Games- * 2020: World Championship:
- * 2015: 7th
- * 2021:
- * 2023: European Championship
- * 2020:
- * 2022: 4th
- Junior World Championship
- * 2012:
Individual awards
- French Championship
- *Hope of the Season: 2012
- *Best Defender: 2016
- *Best Left wing: 2017
- World Championship
- *Best Left wing: 2021
Honors
- Inducted into the Legion of Honor with the rank of Chevalier: 2021