Mariama Signaté

Mariama Signaté

Signaté in the French League Cup final in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Mariama Camara Signaté[1]
Born	22 July 1985 Dakar, Senegal
Nationality	French
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	84 kilograms (185 lb)
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current club	Érdi VSE
Number	24
Youth clubs
1990–2003	Toulon St-Cyr Var HB
Senior clubs
2003–2005 2005–2008 2008–2010 2010–2011 2011–2014 2014–	HAC Handball Fleury Loiret HB HBC Nîmes Aalborg DH Issy-Paris HB Érdi VSE
National team
2004–	France	138 (406)[2]
Medal record Representing  France World Championship 2009 China Team 2011 Brazil Team Mediterranean Games 2009 Italy Team

Mariama Camara Signaté (born 22 July 1985 in Dakar, Senegal)^[1] is a French handball player who plays for Hungarian top division club Érdi VSE and for the French national team.^[3]

Career

Club

Signaté's former clubs include Toulon, where she played from 1990 to 2003, Le Havre, of which she was part from 2003 to 2005, and Fleury les Aubrais (2005–2008).^[4]

In 2008 she switched to HBC Nîmes with that she reached the final of the French League Cup in her first season. A year later won the 2008–2009 edition of the EHF Challenge Cup ahead of German club Thüringer HC. In the summer 2010 she transferred to Danish side Aalborg DH,^[5] just to return to France a year later, joining Issy-Paris HB.^[6] During her time in Issy-Paris, Signaté reached the finals of the EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the EHF Challenge Cup, falling short in both occasions to Hypo Niederösterreich (2013) and H 65 Höör (2014), respectively.

After three season in Issy-Paris, Signate decided to join Hungarian top division side Érd. She claimed that one of the main reasons in her decision to move to Érd was the figure of Edina Szabó – head coach of Érd and technical director of the French national team – with whom she has been working successfully since a long time.^[7]

International

Signaté made her debut in the French national team in October 2004, in a match in Germany against the Norwegian team. In December 2004 she participated at the 2004 European Women's Handball Championship in Hungary, where the French team placed 11th. In 2004 she also achieved a 4th place representing France at the European Junior Championship in the Czech Republic. In 2005 she participated at the Mediterranean Games in Almería, placing 4th with the French team. She participated at the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France, where France finished 5th.^[4] She represented France at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, where France finished 5th.^[1] In 2009 she won a gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Italy.^[4] She participated at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China, where the French team won the silver medal behind Russia,^[4] and Signate was selected into the All-Star team as the best left back of the tournament.^[8]

Honors

• EHF Challenge Cup:
  • Winner: 2009
  • Runner-up: 2014
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
  • Runner-up: 2013

Awards

• All-Star Left Back of the World Championship: 2009

References

1. "Mariama Signate Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
2. "XXI Women's World Championship 2013. Team Roster, France" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
3. Bleues - Signaté allume Krumbholz 22/12/2012
4. "Equipe de France Feminine. 24 – Signate Mariama – Arrière gauche (droitière)" (in French). French Handball Federation. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
5. http://www.hbold.dk/index.php?id_parent=1&id=79&id_nyhed=8778
6. "Mariama Signate rejoint Issy" (in French). Femmes de Défis. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
7. "Bemutatkoztak az újoncok". Érd Handball (in Hungarian). Handball.hu. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
8. "All star team awarded – Postnova most valuable player". International Handball Federation. 20 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.

External links

• Portrait of Mariama Signaté @ Femmes de Défis (French)