Cédric Burdet is a retired French handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 player who played most of his career in French handball team Montpellier HB

Montpellier HB

Montpellier Agglomération Handball, formerly Montpellier HB, is a team handball club from Montpellier, France.In 2003, Montpellier won the biggest prize in European club handball, the EHF Champions League, rallying from an eight-goal deficit after the first leg. They are the only French team ever...

 until his retirement in 2009 (with a national championship victory).

His career with the national team

France national handball team

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 (from 1997 to 2008) included three Olympics games, including winning the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

, where he was instrumental to the victory of France against Croatia

Croatia national handball team

The Croatian national handball team is a handball team that represents Croatia in the international matches and has been playing since the country's independence in the early 1990s...

in the semi-finals where he scored 5 goals in the first half, and in the final against Iceland, where he scored 4 goals.