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Anne-Marie Colchen

1925 - 2017

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne-Marie Colchen is the 457th most popular athlete (up from 639th in 2019), the 3,890th most popular biography from France (up from 4,415th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Anne-Marie Colchen ranks 457 out of 6,025. Before her are André Auffray, Platt Adams, Mike Conley Sr., Vince Gallagher, Maurice Verdonck, and Renate Stecher. After her are Leonid Zhabotinsky, Eliud Kipchoge, Rudolf Burkert, Władysław Kozakiewicz, Henri Jobier, and Yevgeny Grishin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Anne-Marie Colchen ranks 277. Before her are Luis Cruz, Toivo Hyytiäinen, Luigi Carpaneda, John Fiedler, M. S. Swaminathan, and Néstor Rossi. After her are Pierre Mondy, Carmen Martín Gaite, Ignacio López Tarso, Tajuddin Ahmad, Jan Wolkers, and Geoffrey Burbidge. Among people deceased in 2017, Anne-Marie Colchen ranks 286. Before her are Karl-Erik Nilsson, Haruo Nakajima, Ulli Lommel, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles P. Thacker, and Amotz Zahavi. After her are Björn Granath, Adam Darius, Paul J. Weitz, Cuthbert Sebastian, Barry Dennen, and Teresa Ann Savoy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anne-Marie Colchen ranks 3,890 out of 6,770. Before her are Ernest Hébert (1817), Michèle Arnaud (1919), René Panhard (1841), François Perrier (1833), Louis Boyer (1901), and Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1877). After her are Michel Onfray (1959), Thomas Murner (1475), Guy Marchand (1937), Jérémy Mathieu (1983), Henri Jobier (1879), and Maurice Scève (1501).

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Among ATHLETES In France

Among athletes born in France, Anne-Marie Colchen ranks 17. Before her are Albin Lermusiaux (1874), Micheline Ostermeyer (1922), Émile Fisseux (1868), Edward Gardère (1909), Henri Hazebrouck (1877), and André Auffray (1884). After her are Henri Jobier (1879), Robert Liottel (1885), Émile Champion (1879), André Bonin (1909), Roger Beaufrand (1908), and Louis Hostin (1908).

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