{{short description|French handball player (born 1969)}} {{Infobox handball biography | name = Marc Wiltberger | fullname = | image = Marc Wiltberger 2 20151028.jpg | caption = Marc Wiltberger (2015) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|7|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Strassbourg, France | nationality = French | height = 1.93 m | position = Centerback | currentclub = | clubnumber = | youthclubs1 = Racing Club de Strasbourg | years1 = 1978-1989 | clubs1 = Racing Club de Strasbourg | years2 = 1989-1993 | clubs2 = Girondins de Bordeaux HBC | years3 = 1993-1996 | clubs3 = Montpellier AHB | years4 = 1996-1999 | clubs4 = SG Wallau-Massenheim {{flagicon|GER}} | years5 = 1999-2001 | clubs5 = SC Sélestat | years6 = 2001-2004 | clubs6 = Chambéry Savoie HB | nationalyears1 = 1991-2000 | nationalteam1 = France | nationalcaps1 = 148 | nationalgoals1 = 241 | managerclubs1 = Pays d'Aix Université Club (assistent) | manageryears1 = 2014-2015 | managerclubs2 = Pays d'Aix Université Club | manageryears2 = 2015 | medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalBronze| 1997 Japan |}} }} '''Marc Wiltberger''' (born 1969) is a French team handball coach and former player.
==Career== Wiltberger started his handball career at his hometown club Racing Club de Strasbourg. In 1989 he joined Girondins de Bordeaux HBC, where he won the 1990 Coupe de France. After 4 years he joined Montpellier AHB, where he won the French Championship in 1995. In the 1991-92 season he was top scorer in the French league.<ref >{{cite web |url=http://www.experts-handball.com/actualites/detail-des-actualites/article/reconversion-le-mag-marc-wiltberger-au-rebond.html |title=Reconversion - Le Mag : Marc Wiltberger au rebond |publisher=French Handball Federation |access-date=1 May 2015 |language=fr |archive-date=29 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929231316/http://www.experts-handball.com/actualites/detail-des-actualites/article/reconversion-le-mag-marc-wiltberger-au-rebond.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1996 he joined German Bundesliga team SG Wallau-Massenheim.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiv.thw-handball.de/thw/98gewall.htm |publisher=THW Kiel|website=archiv.thw-handball.de|title=Gegnerkader SG Wallau/Massenheim 1998/99|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref> In 1999 he returned to France to join SC Sélestat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/marc-wiltberger-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201720/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/marc-wiltberger-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-17|title=Marc Wiltberger Bio, Stats, and Results|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|access-date=2016-09-26}}</ref> From 2001 until his retirement in 2004 he played for Chambéry Savoie HB. Here he won the French League Cup in 2002 and came second in the French league in 2002 and 2003.
At the 1997 World Championship Japan he won bronze medals with the French team. He also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where the French team placed sixth.<ref name=sref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/marc-wiltberger-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201720/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/marc-wiltberger-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Marc Wiltberger |publisher=Sports-reference.com |accessdate=30 January 2011 }}</ref>
In the 2014-15 season he was the assistent coach at Pays d'Aix Université Club.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.handzone.net/asp.net/main.news/news.aspx?id=59942 |publisher=handzone.net|title=Marc Wiltberger rempile en D1 masculine|date=27 August 2014|access-date=17 August 2015|language=fr}}</ref> When head coach Zvonimir Serdarušić left the club at the end of the season Wiltberger took over as interim coach until November 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psghand.fr/fr/article/au-tour-du-pays-da-aix-handball-1499.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913044351/http://www.psghand.fr/fr/article/au-tour-du-pays-da-aix-handball-1499.html|archive-date=13 September 2016 |publisher=Paris Saint-Germain Handball |title=Au tour du Pays d'Aix Handball|date=12 August 2015|access-date=17 August 2015|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lequipe.fr/Handball/Actualites/Marc-wiltberger-n-est-plus-l-entraineur-d-aix-en-provence-d1/609989 |publisher=lequipe.fr|title=Marc Wiltberger n'est plus l'entraîneur d'Aix-en-Provence|date=22 November 2015|access-date=3 September 2016|language=fr}}</ref>
In January 1996 he was temporarily excluded from handball along with 5 other French players for the consumption of Marihuana.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Nordwest-Zeitung|title=Wieder Marihuana-Fälle|date=24 January 1996|page=20|language=de}}</ref>
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