About The Author

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Who is he ?

Gilles MADELENAT, qualified sports teacher, swimmer at CNCoutances then high-level poloist licensed at the Dauphins de Sète for 16 years (and one year in Nice and Reims), Olympic selected at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 (1990 World Championship in Perth, and Europe 1991 in Athens), followed all of his university training at INSEP.

Who is he ?

Gilles MADELENAT, qualified sports teacher, swimmer at CNCoutances then high-level poloist licensed at the Dauphins de Sète for 16 years (and one year in Nice and Reims), Olympic selected at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 (1990 World Championship in Perth, and Europe 1991 in Athens), followed all of his university training at INSEP.

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Gilles Madelenat

Career

His coaching career began with the cadets of the Sporting Club of Choisy-le-Roi, with which he was French junior champion in 1995 as an assistant to Vladimir Prélovsky. His high-level international sports career ended, he was appointed as a coach with the Joinville battalion in Fontainebleau from September 1996 to June 2000, during which time he experimented with his working method based on the training and education of high-level players. The national technical advisor then returns to the Pôle France of INSEP, which will be the start of a new era for young French poloists wishing to flourish in a dual project of sports and training.

Gilles Madelenat

Career

His coaching career began with the cadets of the Sporting Club of Choisy-le-Roi, with which he was French junior champion in 1995 as an assistant to Vladimir Prélovsky. His high-level international sports career ended, he was appointed as a coach with the Joinville battalion in Fontainebleau from September 1996 to June 2000, during which time he experimented with his working method based on the training and education of high-level players. The national technical advisor then returns to the Pôle France of INSEP, which will be the start of a new era for young French poloists wishing to flourish in a dual project of sports and training.

Coaching Gilles Madelenat

Project

The FFN, under the leadership of its DTN Claude Fauquet and his polo deputy Dominique Delon, sets up a real innovative, ambitious and promising project: that is to train and prepare young people who will play as a team made up from the National 1 division, for their first continental championship. The objective is that each generation passing through INSEP can have the most complete international junior career possible, a necessary condition for having experienced seniors in the future who know the requirements of the high level. The INSEP team has brought a new life into the French poloistic landscape for 10 years. Even though no medal was awarded for this «revolutionary» initiative, France has once again become a feared and respected nation.

Project

The FFN, under the leadership of its DTN Claude Fauquet and his polo deputy Dominique Delon, sets up a real innovative, ambitious and promising project: that is to train and prepare young people who will play as a team made up from the National 1 division, for their first continental championship. The objective is that each generation passing through INSEP can have the most complete international junior career possible, a necessary condition for having experienced seniors in the future who know the requirements of the high level. The INSEP team has brought a new life into the French poloistic landscape for 10 years. Even though no medal was awarded for this «revolutionary» initiative, France has once again become a feared and respected nation.

Coaching Gilles Madelenat
Coaching Gilles Madelenat

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In 2010, following the 5th place won by Generation 93 at the European Championships and after 15 years of loyal service, the author left the FFN for differences of opinion. The FFN wishing to keep him in his post, the author feels the need to «breathe» in order to set up a system aimed at improving the general level and accelerate the training cadence in our territory. To make further progress and reduce the gap between France and the European podiums. This book has come to replace this initial project in a way so that as many people can benefit from his experience, recognized and effective beyond France, as evidenced by the presence of players passed into his hands at INSEP or in the junior French team and who are now part of elite teams or in European clubs. The best of them have joined the French team which has qualified three times for the European Championships, the Olympic Games in Rio and the World Championships in Budapest.

Coaching Gilles Madelenat

Share knowledge

In 2010, following the 5th place won by Generation 93 at the European Championships and after 15 years of loyal service, the author left the FFN for differences of opinion. The FFN wishing to keep him in his post, the author feels the need to «breathe» in order to set up a system aimed at improving the general level and accelerate the training cadence in our territory. To make further progress and reduce the gap between France and the European podiums. This book has come to replace this initial project in a way so that as many people can benefit from his experience, recognized and effective beyond France, as evidenced by the presence of players passed into his hands at INSEP or in the junior French team and who are now part of elite teams or in European clubs. The best of them have joined the French team which has qualified three times for the European Championships, the Olympic Games in Rio and the World Championships in Budapest.

Today

He is now a player-coach at Cotentin Natation des Pieux and a sports teacher at the Lucien Goubert college in Flamanville.

Today

He is now a player-coach at Cotentin Natation des Pieux and a sports teacher at the Lucien Goubert college in Flamanville.