{{short description|French handball player (born 1990)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox handball biography | name = Claudine Mendy | image = Claudine Mendy 20140524.png | nationality = French | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|1|8|df=y}} | birth_place = Mantes-la-Jolie, France | height = {{height|m=1.82|precision=0}} | position = Left back | currentclub = Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball | clubnumber = 8 | years1 = 2007-2010 | clubs1 = Le Havre AC | years2 = 2010-2012 | clubs2 = Metz Handball | years3 = 2012-2013 | clubs3 = RK Budućnost Podgorica | years4 = 2014 | clubs4 = Issy Paris Hand | years5 = 2014-2015 | clubs5 = Metz Handball | years6 = 2015-2016 | clubs6 = HBC Nimes | years7 = 2016-2020 | clubs7 = Fehérvár KC | years8 = 2020-2023 | clubs8 = Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball | nationalyears1 = 2009-2013 | nationalteam1 = France | nationalcaps1 = 84 | nationalgoals1 = 169 | ntupdate = 4 December 2012 | medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalSilver | 2009 China | Team }} {{MedalSilver | 2011 Brazil | Team }} }} '''Claudine Mendy''' (born 8 January 1990) is a French handball player. She plays for Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball and the French national team. In the 2015-2016 season, she would go on to play as a left back for Handball Cercle Nimes.
She participated at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China,<ref name=wc2009>{{cite web|url=http://jshandball.17oh.com/admins/attachment/file/attachment/Mon_0912/581470_1851b493fff.pdf |title=Teams Roaster – France |accessdate=20 December 2009 |work=XIX Women's World Championship 2009, China |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091229045008/http://jshandball.17oh.com/admins/attachment/file/attachment/Mon_0912/581470_1851b493fff.pdf |archivedate=December 29, 2009 }}</ref> winning a silver medal with the French team. Two years later she repeated the achievement, winning another silver medal at the 2011 World Championship. She was also part of the French team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/claudine-mendy-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417194358/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/claudine-mendy-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-17|title=Claudine Mendy Bio, Stats, and Results|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref>
She is of Senegalese origin, her parents were born in the African country.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Claudine Mendy avec le Sénégal à la Coupe d'Afrique des nations |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Handball/Actualites/Claudine-mendy-avec-le-senegal-a-la-coupe-d-afrique-des-nations/1363719 |access-date=2026-01-02 |website=L'Équipe |language=fr}}</ref>
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{{France squad 2011 World Women's Handball Championship}} {{France Women Handball squad 2012 Summer Olympics}} {{France squad 2012 European Women's Handball Championship}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mendy, Claudine}} Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:French women's handball players Category:Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic handball players for France Category:21st-century French sportswomen Category:Sportspeople from Mantes-la-Jolie Category:French expatriate sportspeople in Montenegro Category:Expatriate handball players in Montenegro Category:French expatriate handball players in Hungary Category:Black French sportspeople Category:Metz Handball players
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