William Accambray

William Gérald Accambray (born 8 April 1988) is a French handball player who plays for Saran Loiret Handball and for the French national team.

With the French national team, he is a three time world champion, in 2011, 2015 and 2017.

He is the son of hammer thrower Jacques Accambray and Isabelle Accambray.

Career Accambray started playing handball at the age of 6 at ASPTT Grasse. At 14 he joined Handball Mougins Mouans-Sartoux. A year later he joined Mandelieu HB. His professional career started at HB Mougins Mouans-Sartoux Mandelieu in the French second tier.

In 2008 he joined top flight team Montpellier HB. In the 2010–11 season he was named the best player in the Division 1. In the 2011–12 season he extended his contract with Montpellier until 2016.

In 2014 he joined league rivals Paris Saint-Germain together with Thierry Omeyer.

In 2017 he joined Hungarian KC Veszprém.

From October 2018 until the end of the 2018–19 season he was loaned to Slovenian RK Celje. Afterwards he joined Belarusian team HC Meshkov Brest. After a year in Belarus he returned to France to join Pays d'Aix UC.

In 2023 he joined Saran Loiret Handball.

National team Accambray debuted for the French national team on 19 May 2009 against Portugal.

His first medal for France was at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara. A year later he won the 2010 European Championship in Austria. In 2011 he won the 2011 World Championship beating Denmark in the final.

At the 2012 Olympics he won gold medals with the French team.

In 2014 he won the European Championship for a second time, and in 2015 he won the World Championship for a second time. His third world championship came in 2017.

Achievements Olympic Games: Winner: 2012 World Championship: Winner: 2011, 2015, 2014 European Championship: Winner: 2010, 2014 LNH Division 1: Winner: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Coupe de France: Winner: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 Belarusian championship: Winner: 2020