Name Jackson Richardson Spouse Daniele Richardson | Role Handball Player Children Melvyn Richardson | |
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Jackson Richardson (born on June 14, 1969 in Saint-Pierre, Reunion) is a retired French handball player. As the captain of the French handball team, he was the flag carrier during the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Athens on August 13, 2004.
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Handball Legends - Jackson Richardson
Biography
Richardson started playing handball when he was 6 years old, and was spotted in 1988, during the final of the Nationale 3 league, by Daniel Costantini, the French team headcoach, who was looking for a player from Reunion to play with the bataillon de Joinville. Richardson then signed a contract with the club Paris-Asnieres in 1989, and started to be well known with his first games for the national team.
Two years later, he was transferred to OM Vitrolles, the team with which he won the French League in 1994 and 1996, the French Cup in 1993 and 1995, and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1993. After that he went to Germany to play with the team of TV Groswallstadt, with which he won the European Cities Cup in 2000.
The summit of his club career occurred in Spain, where he played with Portland San Antonio, winning the Champions League against FC Barcelona Handbol in 2001 and the Spanish League the following year.
Richardson came back to France in 2005 to play with Chambery Savoie Handball.
With the French national team, Jackson has won two world championships in 1995 and 2001 (and four other medals, in 1993, 1997, 2003 and 2005), a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and the title of IHF Best player in the world in 1995. He holds by far the record of the most caps for France with more than 400 games. The French handball federation prepared him an outstanding party to celebrate his goodbye to the national team, at the Paris-Bercy tournament, with lots of sport figures present, although the most important was the presence of his mother, who came from their native Reunion Island to be with her son Jack in such an important day.
Richardson was certainly one of the most talented players of his time. His very instinctive style was the combination of constant hard working and genial improvisation, which made him one of the top players in the world for more than 15 years.
Richardson retired after a great Chambery Savoie Handball vs US Ivry match. He is married and has two children.