Lysa Tchaptchet


Lysa Tchaptchet Defo is a professional handballer who plays as a pivot for Danish club Odense Håndbold. Born in Cameroon, she moved to Spain at the age of 5, and she represents Spain at international level.
She is primarily a defensive player.
Tchaptchet represented Spain at the 2020 European Women's Handball Championship.

Career

Tchaptchet began playing handball at CD Beti Onak. In 2019 she joined top league team CB Elche. Here she played for 2 seasons before joining Norwegian team.Vipers Kristiansand. Here she won the Norwegian championship three times; in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the EHF Champions League in 2022 and 2023. In 2024 she transferred to Danish side Odense Håndbold. In the 2024-25 season, she achieved a perfect regular season with Odense Håndbold, winning 26 of 26 games. Later the same season she won the Danish Championship, when Odense beat Team Esbjerg in the final 2-1 in matches.
She debuted for the Spanish national team on November 27th 2020.

Private life

Tchaptchet has a younger sister, Lyndie Tchaptchet Defo, who also play handball in the Spanish National handball team.

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