Orlane Kanor

Orlane Kanor is a French handball player for Rapid București and the French national team. She is a World champion from 2017 and 2023, and a European champion from 2018.

Club career

Kanor started playing handball at Intrépide Handball Club de Sainte-Anne on Guadeloupe. She joined Metz Handball in 2015, and became a part of the first team in the 2016-17 season. With Metz she won the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 French championship, and the 2017, 2019, and 2022 French Cup.
In April 2021, she ruptured her Achilles.
In 2022, she joined Romanian side Rapid București, where she played for two years. She then joined Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC.
She has one of the best jumping skills in international handball.

Kanor debuted for the French national team on 15 June 2017. Later the same year, she won the 2017 World Championship with France. In 2018, she won the 2018 European Championship, beating Russia in the final 24-21. This was the first time France won the European Championship.
At the 2020 European Championship, she won a silver medal. She scored 11 goals during the tournament. The year after she won another silver medal at the 2021 World Championship, losing to Norway in the final.
In 2023, she won the 2023 World Championship.
At the 2024 Olympics, she won silver medals with the French team.
For the 2025 World Championship she won bronze medals losing to Germany in the semifinal and beating Netherlands in extra time in the third place playoff.

She has an identical twin sister named Laura Kanor who is a handballer for Metz Handball.