Stéphane Antiga

Stéphane Antiga (born 3 February 1976) is a former French volleyball player, member of the France men's national volleyball team in 1998–2010, participant of the Olympic Games (Athens 2004), bronze medalist of the 2002 World Championship, silver medalist of the European Championship (2003, 2009) and 2006 World League, seven–time French Champion, five–time Polish Champion (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014), two–time Spanish Champion, current head coach of Polish club DevelopRes SkyRes Rzeszów.

Stéphane Antiga
Personal information
Nationality French
Born (1976-02-03) 3 February 1976
Suresnes, France
Height2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Coaching information
Current team DevelopRes SkyRes Rzeszów
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
2014–2016
2017–2018
2017–2019
2019–		Poland
Canada
ONICO Warszawa
DevelopRes Rzeszów
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Career
YearsTeams
1994–2003
2003–2004
2004–2007
2007–2011
2011–2013
2013–2014		 Paris Volley
Piemonte Volley
CV Pòrtol
Skra Bełchatów
Delecta Bydgoszcz
Skra Bełchatów
National team
1998–2010 France (306)
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  France
FIVB World Championship
2002 Argentina
FIVB World League
2006 Moscow
CEV European Championship
2003 Germany
2009 Turkey
Head Coach  Poland
FIVB World Championship
2014 Poland
FIVB World Cup
2015 Japan
Head Coach  Canada
FIVB World League
2017 Curitiba

Personal life

Antiga was born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He has a wife Stephanie.[1] They have two children - a son Timote and a daughter Manoline.

As the PGE Skra Bełchatów player, 2009–10 PlusLiga season.
Antiga as a coach during the 2014 World Championship held in Poland.

Career as player

Clubs

In his career he has played for the teams of Paris UC (France), Paris Volley, Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo, Portol Palma de Mallorca, Skra Bełchatów and Delecta Bydgoszcz. In April 2013, he signed a contract to return to PGE Skra Bełchatów. After winning gold medal of 2014 Polish Championship with club from Bełchatów he ended his career as a player.

National team

He is silver medalist of European Championship from Germany 2003 and Turkey 2009, bronze medalist of World Championship 2002. Antiga played 306 games with the French national team and was previously captain of the team.

Career as coach
Main article: Matches of Polish men's volleyball national team conducted by Stéphane Antiga

On October 24, 2013, it was announced that Antiga had been appointed as the new head coach of the Poland men's national volleyball team in a three-year contract, replacing Andrea Anastasi.[2] His deputy will be Philippe Blain. Antiga was a player of PGE Skra Bełchatów until the end of the 2013/2014 season. On September 21, 2014 won his first medal as a coach – Poland won a title of World Champion 2014.[3][4][5] On October 27, 2014 received a state award granted by the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski – Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for outstanding contribution to the development of Polish sport, for achievements in training.[6] On December 10, 2014 Antiga and Blain were honored by the Ambassador of France in Poland medals Officers Ordre du Mérite sportif.[7] Historic result at World Championship brought the team their next title of the Best Team of 2014 in 80th Plebiscyt Przeglądu Sportowego 2014 in Poland.[8] Head coach Antiga was awarded a title of the Coach of the year 2014 ex-aequo with Łukasz Kruczek.[9] In 2017 Antiga was named a new head coach of Canada men's national volleyball team[10] In 2017 he also was named a new head coach of Polish club ONICO Warszawa.

Sporting achievements

As a player

As a coach

Individual awards

State awards
Awards
Preceded by
Pavel Abramov		 Best Receiver of
CEV European Championship
2009		 Succeeded by
Nikola Kovačević
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Andrea Anastasi		 Head coach of Poland
2014–2016		 Succeeded by
Ferdinando De Giorgi

References
  1. Stephane Antiga na gali z żoną. Oto pierwsza dama męskiej siatkówki – sport.wp.pl – 08-02-2015
  2. Stéphane Antiga appointed new Poland men’s coach – fivb.org – 28-10-2013
  3. Poland win second World Championship title at home – fivb.org – 21-09-2014
  4. Poland put an end to the reign of Brazil – fivb.org – 21-09-2014
  5. FIVB MŚ Polska 2014: Polska ze złotym medalem – plusliga.pl – 21-09-2014
  6. "Dziękuję za chwile wzruszenia i dumy" Archived 2014-10-27 at the Wayback Machine – prezydent.pl – 27-10-2014
  7. Entraîneurs français mis à l’honneur – ambafrance-pl.org – 10-12-2014
  8. Mistrzowie świata Drużyną Roku – plusliga.pl – 10-01-2015
  9. Plebiscyt "PS" i TVP: Antiga i Kruczek Trenerami Roku – sport.tvp.pl – 10-01-2015
  10. Antiga named coach of Canadian men's volleyball team - CBC Sports
  11. Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 23 października 2014 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń – isap.sejm.gov.pl – 23-10-2014
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