Claude Onesta
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Representing  France
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2008 Beijing | Team |
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2012 London | Team |
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2016 Rio de Janeiro | Team |
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2009 Croatia | |
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2011 Sweden | |
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2015 Qatar | |
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2003 Portugal | |
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2005 Tunisia | |
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2006 Switzerland | |
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2010 Austria | |
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2014 Denmark | |
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2008 Norway | |
Claude Onesta, (born 6 February 1957 in Albi), is a French handball coach, responsible of France’s Men’s handball team since 2001.
With his Russian counterpart Vladimir Maksimov, he has one of the most successful Handball coaching records with titles in major competitions such as The Olympics, The World Championship, and The European Championship. In January 2010, he led his team to a second European title becoming the first men's handball team to simultaneously hold the 3 major titles. It remains a record a year later, in January 2011, at The World Championship in Sweden, and on August 12, 2012, he led training that won a second consecutive Olympic Title at London. He again led the French team to The European Championship Title in 2014 after a victory against Denmark, the host country. He allowed the French team to win The World Championship Title at Qatar in 2015, by winning the finals against the host country. In total, Claude Onesta has led France to 9 finals, 8 of which were won.
Claude Onesta was born in 1957 in Albi, to Ginette, a Tarnaise and Augustus, an Italian immigrant ( his father’s family emigrated from Italy because of Fascism, at first passing by Brazil). His father was a rugby league (Xlll) player in Albi and Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
The Toulouse Handball Club has always been the club of Onesta: he began in 1968 at 11 and continued till 1987, when he became coach of the club. Under his leadership, the club made it to the elites in 1995. In the late 1990s, handball was the development of sport behind Toulouse FC and Toulousain Stadium. The head of the talented players were Jerome Fernandez, Christophe Kempe, Bruno Martini and Stephane Plantin, and Onesta made the most of his team, leading them to 3rd place of the French Championships 1997-1998, and mainly the winner of the France Cup 1998, having the best results of the club. If Onesta and the Toulousains reached the final for the France Cup 1999, the club would not have been able to confirm their best results, especially as the Toulouse sports project was aborted in the 2000s because of the disappearance of the basketball club.
Before the Championship Title, he took the place of Daniel Costantini as the head coach of the French team. Under his direction, France received 2 new world medals with bronze in 2003 and 2005, a year which was also the farewell of Jackson Richardson to the team. During the World Cup in Tunisia, Onesta was on the verge of being fired after the very bad start of the French team during the Preliminary round, in which they were defeated by Greece and forced to draw in the match against the Tunisians. On January 29, 2005, The French had to decide to leave or to double, which was necessary against Denmark (32-26), to save the name of their coach, before winning third place in the tournament with a win (26-25) against the Tunisians, the hosts of the tournament.
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