Anne-Marie Colchen
Anne-Marie Colchen-Maillet (8 December 1925 – 26 January 2017) was a French track and field athlete and women's basketball player. 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. 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. She was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005.
Colchen (top left) with the 1953 French women's basketball squad | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
| Representing France | ||
| European Championships | ||
| 1946 Oslo | High jump | |
| 1946 Oslo | 4×100 m relay | |
| Women's basketball | ||
| FIBA World Cup | ||
| 1953 Santiago | {{{3}}} | |
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