{{short description|French handball player (born 1990)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox handball biography | name = Valentin Porte | image = Valentin Porte-20160416-PSG-TOULOUSE 4.JPG | caption = Porte in 2016 | nationality = French | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|9|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Versailles, France | height = 1.90 m | position = Right back/wing | currentclub = Montpellier Handball | clubnumber = 28 | youthyears1 = 1996–2006 | youthclubs1 = HBC Toury | youthyears2 = 2006–2008 | youthclubs2 = Mainvilliers-Chartres HB | years1 = 2008–2016 | clubs1 = Fenix Toulouse | years2 = 2016– | clubs2 = Montpellier Handball | nationalyears1 = 2013–2024 | nationalteam1 = France | nationalcaps1 = 198 | nationalgoals1 = 438 | medaltemplates = {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalGold|2020 Tokyo|Team}} {{MedalSilver|2016 Rio de Janeiro|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalGold|2015 Qatar|}} {{MedalGold|2017 France|}} {{MedalSilver|2023 Poland/Sweden|}} {{MedalBronze|2019 Germany/Denmark|}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championship}} {{MedalGold|2014 Denmark|}} {{MedalGold|2024 Germany|}} {{MedalBronze|2018 Croatia|}} }} '''Valentin Porte''' (born 7 September 1990) is a French handball player for Montpellier Handball.<ref>[http://www.eurohandball.com/player/535182 EHF profile]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ihf.info/files/CompetitionData/153/pdf/FRA.pdf|title=2015 World Championship Roster|publisher=IHF|access-date=15 January 2015}}</ref>
He won the European title in 2014, the world title in 2015 and 2017, and an Olympic gold medal in 2020.<ref>[http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=porte-valentin-1129771/index.html Valentin Porte]. nbcolympics.com</ref> He also won EHF Champions League in 2018 with Montpellier.
He normally plays as a right wing, but can also play as a right back.
==Career== Porte senior debut came in the French top flight, Starligue, in 2008 for Fenix Toulouse Handball.
In the summer of 2016 he joined league rivals Montpellier Handball.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lepoint.fr/sport/handball-le-toulousain-valentin-porte-a-montpellier-en-2016-20-01-2015-1898088_26.php |publisher=liberation.fr|title=Hand: le Toulousain Valentin Porte à Montpellier en 2016|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=31 January 2017|language=FR|trans-title=Handball: Toulouse player Valentin Porte to Montpellier in 2016}}</ref> Here, he won the EHF Champions League in 2018 and the Coupe de France in 2025.
===National team=== He debuted for the French national team in 2013, and his first major international tournament was the World Championship the same year. In 2015, he won the World Championship in Qatar.<ref>{{cite web|title=France: World, Olympic and European Champions|url=http://www.ihf.info/IHFCompetitions/WorldChampionships/MensWorldChampionships/MensHandballWorldChampionshipQatar2015/News/NewsDetails/tabid/6974/Default.aspx?ID=2390|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201211522/http://www.ihf.info/IHFCompetitions/WorldChampionships/MensWorldChampionships/MensHandballWorldChampionshipQatar2015/News/NewsDetails/tabid/6974/Default.aspx?ID=2390|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2015|publisher=IHF|access-date=1 February 2015|date=1 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ihf.info/files/CompetitionData/153/pdf/FRA.pdf|title=2015 World Championship Roster|publisher=IHF|accessdate=15 January 2015}}</ref>
At the 2016 Olympics, he won a silver medal with the french team, and was in the tournament all-star team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news-1-1-26-84466.html|publisher=handball-world.com|title=All-Star Team mit deutscher Beteiligung: Mikkel Hansen als MVP geehrt|accessdate=23 August 2016|language=de|trans-title=All Star team with German members: Mikkel Hansen as MVP|archive-date=21 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921000118/http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news-1-1-26-84466.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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