Kentin Mahé (born 22 May 1991) is a French handball player for VfL Gummersbach.
Early life Kentin Mahé was born in Paris and started to play handball at age six in AS Monaco, before briefly representing ASPTT Nice. In 2000, he moved to Germany where he grew up, due to his father Pascal Mahé, a former handball player, taking up several managerial positions in the country.
His maternal grandmother is from Sweden and he lived in Stockholm for four months in 2008, aged 18, playing youth handball with then reigning national champions Hammarby IF.
Career Mahé returned to Germany in 2009 and made his senior debut for DHC Rheinland, before enjoying stints in VfL Gummersbach and HSV Hamburg.
In 2015, he signed with the German top club SG Flensburg-Handewitt where he developed into a world class-player under the management of Ljubomir Vranjes. He joined the Hungarian club Telekom Veszprém on 1 July 2018. Here he played for 6 years, where he won the Hungarian Championship 3 times, reached the EHF Champions League final in 2019 and won the SEHA League 3 times.
In 2024 he returned to VfL Gummersbach.
Achievements National team Olympic Games: : 2020 : 2016 World Championship: : 2015, 2017 : 2019 European Men's Handball Championship : 2018
Domestic competitions Handball-Bundesliga: : 2018 Nemzeti Bajnokság I: : 2019, 2023, 2024 Magyar Kupa : 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 EHF Champions League : 2019
Individual awards MVP of the EHF Cup Final Four tournament: 2015 All-Star team Best Centre Back of the EHF Champions League: 2019, 2022
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