French outside hitter Trévor Clévenot has become one of the defining two-way players of France’s most successful Olympic generation, winning consecutive gold medals at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 while building a club career across France, Italy, Poland and Türkiye. Born on June 28, 1994, in Royan, he plays for Ziraat Bankkart Ankara and remains part of the France men’s national team, wearing number 17 during France’s run to the EuroVolley 2026 final.
Clévenot’s value has rarely depended on being his team’s highest-volume scorer. Reception, transition attacking, defense and the ability to take on a larger offensive role when required have shaped his international career. He was named a Best Outside Hitter after France won the 2022 Volleyball Nations League and received the same positional honor at Paris 2024, where he scored 80 points and attacked at 56.20% as France successfully defended its Olympic title.
Player Information
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Trévor Gérard Jean-Claude Clévenot |
| Date of Birth | June 28, 1994 |
| Place of Birth | Royan, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Position | Outside Hitter |
| Height | 199 cm (6 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) |
| Spike Reach | 345 cm |
| Block Reach | 326 cm |
| Dominant Hand | Right |
| Current Club | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara |
| Club Number | 17 |
| National Team | France Men’s National Volleyball Team |
| National-Team Number | 17 |
| @trevor_clevenot |
The 199 cm height is consistent across current international profiles, while the 89 kg weight and 345 cm attack / 326 cm block reaches are documented in Jastrzębski Węgiel’s official presentation of Clévenot. CEV also lists the 345 cm and 326 cm reach figures in its player data.
Early Life & Volleyball Beginnings
Clévenot grew up in a family where volleyball was already familiar. His father, Alain Clévenot, represented France internationally, while his mother and brothers also played the sport. Volleyball World has described that family background as an important part of his early development, but volleyball was not his first organized competitive sport.
As a youngster, Clévenot initially played football as a central defender and spent time in the youth structures of Girondins de Bordeaux and FC Nantes. He eventually moved away from football and began playing volleyball at Saint-Jean-d’Illac, near Bordeaux. The French federation’s profile of him also points to summers playing volleyball with his family on the beach as part of the technical foundation he brought into the indoor game.
His national-team pathway developed quickly. France finished runner-up at the 2011 European youth championship, giving Clévenot his first international medal, and he later competed at junior level before moving into professional volleyball with Spacer’s Toulouse. In 2013, he was also part of the French team that earned bronze at the Mediterranean Games.
Those years established an important pattern in his career: he developed as an outside hitter expected to contribute across the full rotation rather than as a specialist whose responsibility ended with attacking.
Club Career
Clévenot’s professional career has moved through four of Europe’s most demanding volleyball environments. After establishing himself in Toulouse, he spent five consecutive seasons in Italy, moved to Poland after winning Olympic gold, spent a season with another leading Polish club and then began a title-rich period with Ziraat Bankkart Ankara.
Toulouse and Five Seasons in Italy
Clévenot began his senior club career with Spacer’s Toulouse Volley, remaining there from 2012 until 2016. The four-season spell gave him sustained experience in France’s top division before his first major move abroad.
Piacenza brought him to the Italian SuperLega in 2016. He spent two seasons with LPR Volley Piacenza before joining Milano in 2018, remaining there for another two campaigns. Italy presented a particularly demanding environment for a receiving outside hitter because of the league’s combination of powerful serving, high-level blocking and deep international rosters.
He returned to Piacenza for 2020–21 with Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza, completing five consecutive seasons in the Italian championship across the two clubs. The period did not produce the major team titles that would come later in Poland and Türkiye, but it gave Clévenot a long run of competition in one of the world’s strongest domestic leagues.
By the end of the 2020–21 season, his career was moving into a different phase. France won its first Olympic men’s volleyball title in Tokyo, and Clévenot entered the next club season as an Olympic champion.
Jastrzębski Węgiel and the Polish Chapter
Clévenot’s move to Jastrzębski Węgiel in September 2021 came under unusual circumstances. The Polish club had lost Slovenian outside hitter Tine Urnaut, who opted to join Zenit Saint Petersburg, and Jastrzębski signed Clévenot as his replacement, initially announcing a one-season agreement. The transfer placed him alongside fellow French Olympic champions Benjamin Toniutti and Stephen Boyer.
He ultimately stayed for two seasons. The second produced the major domestic breakthrough: Jastrzębski Węgiel won the 2022–23 Polish championship, sweeping the final series against ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle. Clévenot was directly involved in the decisive third match, contributing in attack and block as Jastrzębski secured the title.
That season also took the club to the CEV Champions League final, extending Clévenot’s experience from domestic title contention into the highest level of European club competition.
For 2023–24, he moved to Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie. The change kept him in PlusLiga but placed him with another rising contender. Zawiercie won the Polish Cup and finished runner-up in the championship after losing the final series to Jastrzębski Węgiel. The Polish league’s own records show Clévenot playing 30 league matches during that season and scoring 334 points.
His single season with Zawiercie completed a three-year Polish chapter in which he played for both sides of one of the league’s emerging rivalries.
Ziraat Bankkart and a Run of Major Trophies
Clévenot joined Ziraat Bankkart Ankara for 2024–25 and quickly became part of one of the strongest periods in the Turkish club’s history.
The European campaign was particularly productive. During the 2025 CEV Cup quarterfinals against ACH Volley Ljubljana, Clévenot scored 19 points, including two blocks, and was named match MVP as Ziraat advanced to the semifinals. Before the final, CEV listed him as the competition’s fifth-highest scorer with 122 points.
Ziraat went on to defeat defending champion Asseco Resovia Rzeszów over the two-leg final and win the 2025 CEV Cup, the first European trophy in club history. Clévenot also finished his first Turkish season as an Efeler Ligi champion.
The trophies continued in 2025–26. Ziraat opened the season by winning the Turkish Super Cup and then added the Turkish Cup in April 2026, beating Galatasaray 3–0 in the final. Clévenot started the cup final and scored eight points, converting seven of 11 attacks and adding a block.
Later that month, Ziraat completed another Turkish championship campaign by sweeping Galatasaray 3–0 in the playoff final series. Clévenot again started the decisive match.
The season ended with another European milestone. Ziraat reached the CEV Champions League Final Four for the first time and defeated PGE Projekt Warszawa in five sets in the bronze-medal match. Clévenot scored 13 points and supplied a late block during the decisive fifth set as Ziraat secured the first Champions League medal in club history.
Club Career Timeline
| Seasons | Team | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2012–2016 | Spacer’s Toulouse Volley | France |
| 2016–2018 | LPR Volley Piacenza | Italy |
| 2018–2020 | Allianz Powervolley Milano | Italy |
| 2020–2021 | Gas Sales Bluenergy Piacenza | Italy |
| 2021–2023 | Jastrzębski Węgiel | Poland |
| 2023–2024 | Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie | Poland |
| 2024–Present | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara | Türkiye |
CEV’s competition history records Clévenot with Toulouse, Piacenza, Milano, Jastrzębski Węgiel, Warta Zawiercie and Ziraat across his European club career, while the current record lists him with Ziraat Bankkart Ankara in 2026.
National Team Career
Clévenot’s France career spans the period in which the men’s national team progressed from World League contender to two-time Olympic champion. His role has changed over that time, but his ability to function as a receiving outside hitter has kept him involved across multiple generations of the French lineup.
World League Breakthrough and France’s Rise
After youth and junior international experience, Clévenot became part of France’s senior breakthrough period during the middle of the 2010s.
He was involved when France won the FIVB World League in 2015 and again in 2017, with a bronze medal between those victories in 2016. Those results helped establish the national team among the leading international sides before the Olympic breakthrough that followed several years later.
The transition from World League to Volleyball Nations League brought further medals. France finished runner-up in the inaugural VNL in 2018 and took bronze in 2021, shortly before the Tokyo Olympics.
Tokyo 2020, staged in 2021, transformed the historical standing of that generation. France advanced through a difficult tournament and defeated the Russian Olympic Committee in a five-set final to win the country’s first Olympic men’s indoor volleyball gold medal.
For Clévenot, the result moved his career from international medalist to Olympic champion before he had turned 28.
VNL 2022 and Individual Recognition
France remained at the top of international volleyball after Tokyo, winning the 2022 Volleyball Nations League.
Clévenot’s tournament produced both a team title and one of the most significant individual awards of his career. He recorded 86 points across 10 matches — 72 attacks, four blocks and 10 aces — and was selected as one of the competition’s two Best Outside Hitters alongside teammate Earvin Ngapeth.
His match-level production reflected the balance in his role. He scored 15 points in the semifinal against Italy and 11 in the final against the United States, while also carrying substantial reception responsibility during the Finals.
The award confirmed that Clévenot’s contribution to France could be recognized independently of the more visible scoring roles occupied by Ngapeth or opposite Jean Patry.
Paris 2024: Best Outside Hitter and a Second Olympic Gold
France entered the summer of 2024 as defending Olympic champion and added another major title before the Games, defeating Japan in the VNL final to regain the Nations League trophy.
At the Paris Olympics, Clévenot played one of the strongest major tournaments of his career.
Volleyball World’s official statistics credit him with 80 points: 68 attacks, 10 blocks and two aces. He converted 56.20% of his attacking attempts, the eighth-highest attacking percentage ranking among the listed men’s attackers.
The production became particularly important once the knockout round began. Clévenot scored 20 points in the five-set quarterfinal victory over Germany and 17 in the straight-set semifinal against Italy. In the gold-medal match against Poland, he contributed another 11 points, including nine attacks, a block and an ace.
France won the final 3–0 and became Olympic champion for the second consecutive Games.
Clévenot was then named one of the two Best Outside Hitters in the official Paris 2024 Dream Team, joining Ngapeth at the position. Five French players made the tournament’s ideal lineup.
The combination of a second Olympic title and a tournament Best Outside Hitter award made Paris 2024 a defining point in Clévenot’s international career.
Still Central in 2026
Clévenot remained active with France through the 2026 international season rather than stepping away after Paris.
In the 2026 Volleyball Nations League, he scored 93 points across eight appearances: 82 in attack, nine from blocks and two from serves. Volleyball World lists a 46.07% attacking efficiency for that tournament.
France then selected him for EuroVolley 2026, with the federation listing Ziraat Ankara as his 2026–27 club. The French side advanced to the final in Milan before losing 3–1 to Poland on September 26, giving Clévenot another major international medal — European silver — eleven years after his first World League title.
Playing Style & Strengths
Clévenot’s defining tactical value is the balance between first-contact responsibility and efficient scoring. Volleyball World has characterized him as a reliable contributor on both sides of the ball, and his major individual awards reinforce that profile: the 2022 VNL and Paris 2024 both recognized him as one of the tournament’s best outside hitters rather than purely as a scorer.
Paris 2024 provides the strongest statistical example. He scored 68 attack points from 121 attacking actions, producing a 56.20% success rate while also adding 10 blocks. Among the leading Olympic scorers, only a small group of outside hitters combined that level of attack efficiency with a double-digit blocking total. His 20-point quarterfinal against Germany and 17-point semifinal against Italy also came in matches where France faced elimination, showing that his role could expand beyond stabilizing reception when the offense needed more production.
Reception and backcourt work remain equally important to the way France uses him. Clévenot is comfortable carrying a six-rotation outside-hitter workload, allowing the lineup to preserve ball control while still retaining a credible attacking option from the left side. That balance helps explain why he can play alongside more attack-dominant outside hitters without becoming redundant.
His club performances show a similar adaptability. During Ziraat’s 2025 CEV Cup run, he reached 122 points before the final and produced a 19-point MVP performance in the quarterfinal against ACH Volley. A year later, he remained effective in a roster containing high-volume scorers such as Nimir Abdel-Aziz and Tomasz Fornal, contributing 13 points in the Champions League bronze-medal match rather than requiring the offense to be built around him.
Major Achievements
Selected National Team Honors
| Year | Competition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CEV European Championship | Silver Medal |
| 2024 | Paris Olympic Games | Gold Medal |
| 2024 | Volleyball Nations League | Gold Medal |
| 2022 | Volleyball Nations League | Gold Medal |
| 2021 | Volleyball Nations League | Bronze Medal |
| 2020 (held in 2021) | Tokyo Olympic Games | Gold Medal |
| 2018 | Volleyball Nations League | Silver Medal |
| 2017 | FIVB World League | Gold Medal |
| 2016 | FIVB World League | Bronze Medal |
| 2015 | FIVB World League | Gold Medal |
| 2013 | Mediterranean Games | Bronze Medal |
| 2011 | CEV European Youth Championship | Silver Medal |
Clévenot’s international honors now span 15 years, from France’s 2011 youth silver medal to the senior team’s EuroVolley 2026 silver-medal run.
Selected Club Honors
| Season | Competition | Result | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | CEV Champions League | Bronze Medal | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara |
| 2025–26 | Turkish Championship | Champion | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara |
| 2025–26 | Turkish Cup | Winner | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara |
| 2025 | Turkish Super Cup | Winner | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara |
| 2024–25 | CEV Cup | Winner | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara |
| 2024–25 | Turkish Championship | Champion | Ziraat Bankkart Ankara |
| 2023–24 | Polish Cup | Winner | Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie |
| 2023–24 | Polish Championship | Runner-up | Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie |
| 2022–23 | Polish Championship | Champion | Jastrzębski Węgiel |
The period with Ziraat has produced the densest concentration of club trophies in Clévenot’s career, including a first European title for the club in 2025 and its first Champions League medal in 2026.
Selected Individual Awards
| Year | Competition | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Paris Olympic Games | Best Outside Hitter |
| 2022 | Volleyball Nations League | Best Outside Hitter |
Both awards came in championship tournaments for France, linking Clévenot’s individual recognition directly to major team success.
Where Is Trévor Clévenot Playing Now?
As of October 2026, Trévor Clévenot remains with Ziraat Bankkart Ankara in Türkiye’s Efeler Ligi. CEV lists him as number 17 for Ziraat in the 2026 European club cycle, while the French federation identified Ziraat Ankara as his club for the 2026–27 season when announcing the EuroVolley roster.
He entered the new season after a 2025–26 campaign in which Ziraat won both the Turkish Cup and league championship and added Champions League bronze. The club’s first major match of 2026–27 came on October 12, when it faced Galatasaray in the Turkish Super Cup. Clévenot started for Ziraat, but Galatasaray won 3–1.
Internationally, Clévenot remains an active France player. He competed in both the 2026 VNL and EuroVolley, helping France reach the European final and finish with the silver medal.
Recent Performance Snapshot
2026 Volleyball Nations League
| Statistic | Total |
|---|---|
| Matches Played | 8 |
| Total Points | 93 |
| Points Per Match | 11.62 |
| Attack Points | 82 |
| Attack Efficiency | 46.07% |
| Block Points | 9 |
| Service Aces | 2 |
These are tournament-specific figures from Volleyball World’s 2026 VNL record and should not be read as season or career totals.
Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Trévor Clévenot?
Trévor Clévenot was born on June 28, 1994, in Royan, France. He is 32 years old as of October 2026.
How tall is Trévor Clévenot?
Clévenot is 199 cm tall, approximately 6 ft 6 in. His documented attack reach is 345 cm and his block reach is 326 cm.
What position does Trévor Clévenot play?
He plays as an outside hitter. His role combines serve reception, left-side attacking, backcourt defense and blocking, with his international career particularly notable for maintaining offensive efficiency alongside substantial first-contact responsibility.
Which club does Trévor Clévenot play for?
Clévenot plays for Ziraat Bankkart Ankara in Türkiye. He has been with the club since the 2024–25 season and remains on its 2026–27 roster.
How many Olympic gold medals has Trévor Clévenot won?
He has won two Olympic gold medals with France: Tokyo 2020, staged in 2021, and Paris 2024. At the Paris Games he was also selected as one of the tournament’s two Best Outside Hitters.
What number does Trévor Clévenot wear?
Clévenot currently wears number 17 for both Ziraat Bankkart Ankara and the France men’s national team. CEV lists him as number 17 for Ziraat’s 2026 European campaign and France’s EuroVolley 2026 team.
References
- CEV — Trévor Clévenot official player profile and European career history
- FFVolley — France men’s national team player dossier: Trévor Clévenot
- Volleyball World — In Trevor We Trust
- Jastrzębski Węgiel — Trevor Clévenot joins Jastrzębski Węgiel
- Jastrzębski Węgiel — Jastrzębski Węgiel wins the 2023 Polish Championship
- CEV — Ziraat Bank Ankara lift maiden European trophy
- Türkiye Volleyball Federation — Ziraat Bankkart wins the 2026 Turkish Cup
- Türkiye Volleyball Federation — Ziraat Bankkart wins the 2025–26 Efeler Ligi
- CEV Champions League — Historic bronze for Ziraat after dramatic five-set clash
- Volleyball World — Trévor Clévenot Paris 2024 player profile and statistics
- Volleyball World — French star Ngapeth repeats as Paris 2024 MVP and Olympic Dream Team announced
- Volleyball World — Trévor Clévenot VNL 2026 player profile and statistics
- FFVolley — France takes silver at EuroVolley 2026
- Türkiye Volleyball Federation — 2026 Men’s Turkish Super Cup final
