Théo Derot
French handball player
Théo Derot (born 17 June 1992) is a French handball player who plays for Martigues Handball in the French third tier. He has previously feature for the French national team.
He participated at the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship, where France finished 5th.
He initially retired in 2019 while playing for Istres Provence Handball, but unretired in 2021 to join Martigues Handball.
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Théo Derot comes from a handball family. His father Gilles Derot and his uncle Christian Gaudin were also handballers, as are his cousins Noah, Clement and Thomas Gaudin.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22093694. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2016, 2019 and 2021.
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