Henry Crawford Palmer (born September 14, 1970) is a French-American men's basketball player formerly with
Strasbourg IG
Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket, most commonly known as SIG Basket or SIG Strasbourg, is a French professional basketball club that is based in Strasbourg. The club, founded in 1929, competes domestically in the French Pro A League, and ...
in France and
the French men's national basketball team. Palmer, born in
Ithaca, New York, attended
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
from 1988 to 1991, then transferred to
Dartmouth College. Palmer won a
silver medal
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at the
2000 Summer Olympics
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playing for France.
References
1970 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American men's basketball players
ASVEL Basket players
Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Basketball players from New York (state)
Centers (basketball)
Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball players
Duke Blue Devils men's basketball players
French men's basketball players
French people of American descent
Joventut Badalona players
Liga ACB players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball players for France
Olympic medalists in basketball
Olympic silver medalists for France
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Sportspeople from Ithaca, New York
SIG Strasbourg players
Washington-Liberty High School alumni
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