René Chocat (28 November 1920 – 18 July 2000) was a French

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player. He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2012.

National team career

Chocat played the

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, and at the

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. At the London 1948 Summer Olympic Games, he was a part of the senior French national team that won the silver medal. Four years later, at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games, he was a member of the French team, which finished in eighth place.

References

External links

René Chocat at databaseOlympics.com
1920 births 2000 deaths French men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for France Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in basketball Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Small forwards Union athlétique de Marseille players 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-Olympic-medalist-stub