Anne-Marie Colchen
French basketball player and athletics competitor (1925-2017) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anne-Marie Colchen-Maillet (8 December 1925 – 26 January 2017) was a French former track and field athlete and women's basketball player. She was born in Le Havre, France.
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Career
She became France's first high jump champion at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and held the French record for the event for ten years. She represented France in high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1]
In basketball she was the highest scorer at the 1953 FIBA World Championship for Women, helping France to third place. She was a member of the French national team for the European Women's Basketball Championship in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1956.[2]
After retiring from active competition she went into coaching.[3] Colchen was inducted into the Gloire du sport (the French national sports hall of fame) in 2002.
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Death
Colchen died on 26 January 2017 in Paris, France, aged 91.
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