Timothée Clément
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| Born |
8 April 2000 Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder / Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Gantoise | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Montrouge | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| –2020 | Montrouge | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Orée | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–present | Gantoise | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2021 | France U21 | 16 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–present | France | 41 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Timothée Clément (born 8 April 2000)[1] is a French field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Belgian Hockey League club Gantoise and the French national team.[2]
Club career[edit]
Clément came through the youth ranks of Montrouge where he played until 2020 when he moved to Belgium to play for Royal Orée.[3] He left Orée in 2022 to play for Gantoise whom he joined together with his brother Mathis.[4]
International career[edit]
Junior national team[edit]
Timothée Clément made his debut for the French U–21 team in 2017. He represented the side at the EuroHockey Junior Championship II in Saint Petersburg, where he won a gold medal.[5]
He represented the team again in 2019 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship in Valencia.[5]
In 2021, he captained the team at the FIH Junior World Cup in Bhubaneswar. In the opening match, he scored a hat-trick in a 5–4 win over defending champions India.[6][7]
In October 2022 he has elected rising star of the year after being best player in junior World Cup 2021, second top scorer in junior World Cup 2021 and top scorer in qualifying for the 2023 European Cup in Calais.
Les Bleus[edit]
A year after his junior debut, Clément debuted for Les Bleus in a test match against England in Wattignies.[5] Later that year he represented the team at the 2018 FIH World Cup in Bhubaneswar, where the team finished eighth.[8]
Since his debut, Clément has been a regular in the men's national team.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Team Details – France". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "Timothée CLEMENT". ffhockey.org (in French). Fédération Française de Hockey. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "L'explosion de Timothée". okey.lalibre.be (in French). 15 March 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ "Les Clément à Gand". okey.lalibre.be (in French). 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ a b c d "CLÉMENT Timothée". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "Sanjay's hat-trick goes in vain as France stun title holders India 5-4 in Junior Hockey WC". espn.com.au. ESPN. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "Hockey's French evolution begins". indianexpress.com. Indian Express. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
- ^ "CLÉMENT Timothée". worldcup2018.hockey. FIH World Cup. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
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- 2000 births
- Living people
- French male field hockey players
- Male field hockey midfielders
- Male field hockey forwards
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Men's Belgian Hockey League players
- Field hockey players from Paris
- La Gantoise HC players
- French expatriate field hockey players
- French field hockey biography stubs