Laurent Tillie elected Sports Manager of the Year at the 2022 Sport and Management Trophies

It is therefore Laurent Tillie, haloed with the title of Olympic champion with the French volleyball team at the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021, who succeeds Christophe Galtier, rewarded after the title of French football champion of LOSC during of the 2020-2021 season. The trophy was awarded to him this Wednesday, September 28 on the occasion of the presentation at the National Assembly of the Sport and Management Trophies.

Laurent Tillieformer captain and then coach of the French team from 2012 to 2021, gave French volleyball a leap forward by winning Olympic gold for the first time in Tokyo, undeniably making an impression after 2 victories in the World League in 2015 and 2017. Stayed in Japan to train the Panasonic Panthers team, he leaves to his successor a French team whose status has particularly changed and which will be particularly expected in Paris in 2024

The other 5 named

– Vincent Vittozafter a long career as a cross-country skier in the French team, became coach of the French men’s biathlon team in 2018, accompanying his group to the highest world and Olympic peaks.

– Fabien Galthieat the head of the French men’s rugby team since 2019, won the Six Nations Tournament with a Grand Slam at stake, and beat the always difficult All Blacks to face.

– Sonia Bompastor, coach of the Olympique Lyonnais women’s team since 2021, became the first woman to win the Women’s Champions League as both a player (2011, 2012) and coach (2022) after a 2021 season / 2022 exceptional which allowed him, from his first year of coaching, to achieve the double championship of France / Champions League

– Olivier Krumbholzbrought for the first time the French women’s handball team, after a narrowly lost final in Rio, on the highest step of the Olympic podium in Tokyo.

– Olivier Lafargueat the head of the women’s team of the emblematic Tango Bourges Basket club since 2017, concluded a remarkable season by achieving a historic double championship of France / Eurocup, and being a finalist of the Coupe de France.