Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

French handball: an ultimate school sport? (1937-1992)

Lise Cardin

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Our contribution highlights the collaboration between PE teachers and the French handball federation (FFHB) between 1937 and 1992. Here, we will focus especially on the impact of this collaboration on the trajectory of handball in France since the World university games holding in Paris in 1937. In fact, this sport was almost unknown in France and PE teachers discovered it at this time. Then, they become main actors in the development of handball. Methodologically, we identified both federal sources and PE files about handball during the 20th century, associated with general and sport press. This corpus is completed by oral sources with 20 federal actors and PE teachers who were involved in handball. Analysis of these sources highlights a tight collaboration between PE teachers and FFHB to the point that PE teachers made some major decisions about the trajectory of handball. First, they initiated the institutionalization of this sport. Then, they were involved in the abolition of handball with 11 players. Moreover, they collaborated with FFHB in high performance, especially with the sport-study program. The consequences of this tight collaboration, with a potential fusion between PE teachers and federal actors, is that handball was represented as a school sport, even when the French handball team won its first world medal in the 1992 Olympic Games.

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hal-04875546 , version 1 (08-01-2025)

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Lise Cardin. French handball: an ultimate school sport? (1937-1992). XXVth International Congress of CESH, Bucarest, Sep 2022, Bucarest, Romania. ⟨hal-04875546⟩
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