Jacques Perrier (basketball)
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Jacques Perrier (12 October 1924 – 23 June 2015) was a French
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
player. He was inducted into the
French Basketball Hall of Fame The French Basketball Academy ( French: Académie du basket-ball français) is a hall of fame that honors individuals (or whole teams) that have contributed to the spread and improvement of French basketball, through their sporting contributions, ...
, in 2006.


French national team

Perrier was the leading scorer of the
EuroBasket 1947 The 1947 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1947, was the fifth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA. Fourteen national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) took ...
. He also played at the
1948 Summer Olympic Games The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...
. He was a part of the senior French national team that won the silver medal.


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Jacques Perrier on databaseOlympics.comJacques Perrier's obituary
1924 births 2015 deaths French men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for France Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in basketball Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Shooting guards 1950 FIBA World Championship players 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-Olympic-medalist-stub