Pauline Coatanea
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Saint-Renan, France
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| Born |
6 July 1993 Saint-Renan, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Right wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Brest Bretagne HB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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– | Locmaria Handball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011-2012 | Arvor 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Arvor 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012–2017 | Nantes Loire Atlantique HB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017– | Brest Bretagne HB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017– | France | 72 | (127) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pauline Coatanea (born 6 July 1993) is a French handball player who plays for Brest Bretagne Handball and the French national team as a right wing.[1][2]
National team
Coatanea started playing handball aged 8 at Locmaria Handball, where she played together with Maud-Éva Copy.[3] In 2011 she joined Arvor 29.[4] Between 2010 and 2012 she played 6 senior matches in the League.[5]
In 2012 she joined second league team Nantes Loire Atlantique Handball.[4][5] She won the French second league 2013, and was promoted to the first league.[6] In 2015-16 she played in the EHF Cup for the first time in club history, reaching the third round. In 2017 she rejoined Brest Bretagne HB.[7] Here she won the 2018 and 2021 French Cup and the 2021 French championship.[8]
Coatanea debuted for the French national team on 16 March 2017 against Denmark.[9] With the French team she won the 2018 European Championship on home soil. In the final against Russia, she scored one single goal.[10][11]
A year later at the 2019 World Championship she and the French team disappointed by finished 13th. [12]
At the 2020 European Championship she reached the final with the French team, losing to Norway.[13][14]
At the 2020 Olympics she won gold medals with the French team.[15] During the tournament she scored 20 goals.[16]
Achievements
Club
International
- EHF Champions League
- Finalist: 2021 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
Domestic
- French league:
- Winner
: 2021 (with Brest Bretagne Handball) - Runner up: 2022 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Tied 1st: 2020 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Winner
- French Cup (Coupe de France):
- Winner : 2018 and 2021 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Runner up: 2019 (with Brest Bretagne Handball)
- Winner
- French League Cup (Coupe de la Ligue):
- Runner up: 2011 (with Arvor 29)
- French 2nd division league (Division 2 Féminine):
- Winner : 2013 (with Nantes Loire Atlantique Handball)
- Winner
National team
- Olympic Games
- 2020: Gold
- 2020:
- European Championship
- Junior competitions
- 10th at the European Women's U-19 Handball Championship in 2011
Silver at the IHF Women's Junior World Championship (U20) in 2012
Individual awards
- All-Star Team Right Wing of the Junior World Championship: 2012[17]
- Championnat de France:
