Kentin Mahé
Kentin Mahé is a French handball player for VfL Gummersbach.
Early life
Kentin Mahé was born in Paris and started to play handball at age six in AS Monaco, before briefly representing ASPTT Nice. In 2000, he moved to Germany where he grew up, due to his father Pascal Mahé, a former handball player, taking up several managerial positions in the country.His maternal grandmother is from Sweden and he lived in Stockholm for four months in 2008, aged 18, playing youth handball with then reigning national champions Hammarby IF.
Career
Mahé returned to Germany in 2009 and made his senior debut for DHC Rheinland, before enjoying stints in VfL Gummersbach and HSV Hamburg.In 2015, he signed with the German top club SG Flensburg-Handewitt where he developed into a world class-player under the management of Ljubomir Vranjes. He joined the Hungarian club Telekom Veszprém on 1 July 2018.
Achievements
National team
Olympic Games:- * : 2020
- * : 2016World Championship:
- * : 2015, 2017
- * : 2019European Men's Handball Championship
- * : 2018
Domestic competitions
Handball-Bundesliga:- * : 2018Nemzeti Bajnokság I:
- * : 2019, 2023
- Magyar Kupa
- * : 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Individual awards
- MVP of the EHF Cup Final Four tournament: 2015
- All-Star team Best Centre Back of the EHF Champions League: 2019, 2022