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Romane Frécon-Demouge (* 16). March 1993 in Besançon is a French handball player on the far-right position. In the variant Beachhandball she is a French national player.

Frécon-Demouge comes from a French handball family. The grandparents and parents were already successful handball players and coaches. The mother Joëlle Demouge became in 1988 French champion under her own father, Romane Frécon-Demouge's grandfather, Michel Demouge as coach. The sister Alizée Frécon is a French national player.

Indoor handball
Frécon-Demouge began her career in performance at her family’s home club, the ES Besançon in the 2009/10 season in the second French league. The following season she moved to Le Havre AC Handball in the first French league and debuted both there as she played for the second team in the third league. After five years and 35 games as well as five relegation games, she moved to the second division of Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball. After two years she rose with Bourg-de-Péage in the first division, where she played with the club for two years against the relegation. Afterwards, she played another season in the second division for Le Havre, but the season was not ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020 Frécon-Demouge plays again for Saint-Amand Handball in the first division of France. By 2020, she played 76 first division games, three playoff games, 21 relegation games between the first and second divisions, 52 second and 36 third division games.

During her time at Le Havre, Frécon-Demouge played in four seasons in various European Cup competitions. In 2010/11 she reached the final of the EHF Cup and was eliminated there against FC Midtjylland Håndbold, a year later she won the EHF Challenge Cup with her club against Muratpaşa Belediyesi SK from Turkey, where she was used in the final second leg against home backdrop. In 2012/13 she played with AHC again in the EHF Cup and lost in the round of 16 again against a Norwegian team, this time Tertnes IL. In 2014/15, Frécon-Demouge once again took part in the Challenge Cup with Le Havre and reached the semi-finals there, where the later winner Union Mios Biganos-Bègles was defeated in an internal French duel.

Beachhandball
France took part in the second and third editions of the European Beach Handball Championship, but then withdrew from the sport for more than ten years. Only in 2017 did the Bleus compete for the third time at a European Championship. So it is not surprising that Frécon-Demouge came relatively late to beach handball. In 2016, she was one of the first appointed players to rebuild the national team.

Frécon-Demouge played her first tournament for the French national team as a specialist at the 2019 European Championships in Stare Jabłonki, Poland. France started with a narrow defeat