Jackson Richardson

Jackson Richardson (born 14 June 1969) is a French former handball player. Regarded as one of the best and most influential handball players of his era, Richardson won fourteen titles at club level and the World Championship in 1995 and 2001 with the French national team.

With the national team, Richardson also received one silver medal and three bronze medals at the World Championships in 1993, 1997, 2003 and 2005, and won the bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He holds the record for most caps for the French national team with 417 appearances. As the captain of the national team, Richardson was France's flag bearer during the 2004 Olympic Games opening ceremony in Athens. In 1988, he was spotted during a match at Réunion Island by French national team head coach Daniel Costantini who was scouting for a Réunionese player for Bataillon de Joinville, a military unit of the French army for sport conscripts. After completing his military service, Richardson signed for Paris-Asnières in 1989. Richardson dedicated the tournament to his father who had recently passed away.

Honours

Club OM Vitrolles

EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 1993 LNH Division 1: 1994, 1996 Coupe de France: 1993, 1995

TV Großwallstadt

EHF Challenge Cup: 2000

Portland San Antonio

EHF Champions League: 2001 EHF Cup Winners' Cups: 2004 EHF Supercup: 2000 Liga ASOBAL: 2002, 2005 Copa del Rey: 2001 Supercopa ASOBAL: 2001, 2002

International World Championship: 1995, 2001 1993 1997, 2003, 2005 Olympic Games 1992

Individual IHF World Player of the Year: 1995 MVP at the 1990 World Championship MVP and best centre back at the 1995 World Championship MVP and best centre back at the 2000 European Championship Best foreign player of the Spanish League: 2001, 2002 Best playmaker of the Spanish League: 2003, 2004, 2005 European Handball Federation Hall of Fame in 2023.