Jacques Flouret

Jacques Flouret

Flouret in 1927
Personal information
Born	8 September 1907 Saint-Maur, France
Died	4 October 1973 (aged 66)[1]
Height	186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics, basketball
Event(s)	Long jump, pentathlon, javelin throw
Club	Paris UC
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	LJ – 7.05 m (1927)[2]
Medal record Representing  France Athletics Student World Championships 1927 Rome Javelin throw 1927 Rome Pentathlon 1928 Paris Pentathlon Basketball EuroBasket 1937 Riga Team

Jacques Flouret (8 September 1907 – 4 October 1973) was a multi-talented French athlete.

Track and field career

Flouret won three medals in the pentathlon and javelin throw, at the Student World Championships of 1927 and 1928. He finished 28th in the long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Basketball career

Between 1930 and 1938, Flouret played in 25 international games as a shooting guard, for the senior French national basketball team, and scored 48 points. Those 25 games included the opening match of France-Estonia, at the 1936 Summer Olympics,^[2] and the EuroBasket 1937 tournament, where France won the bronze medal.^[3] He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2010.

Post-athletic career

After retiring from sports in 1938, Flouret had a long career as a sports official in France.

References

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