André Vacheresse (12 October 1927 in Roanne – 17 June 2000) was a player and coach for the French basketball club Chorale Roanne Basket . He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
4-764: Vacheresse played for Chorale Roanne Basket from 1942 to 1962, and was the club's manager from 1977 to 1978 and its coach from 1978 to 1980. He was also a regular member of the France team with 70 caps and three titles as UFOLEP Champion of France. He won three medals at the FIBA EuroBasket : silver in Cairo 1949 , and bronze in Paris 1951 and Moscow 1953 . Vacheresse took part in the 1950 FIBA World Cup , in Buenos Aires, as captain with Maurice Marcelot , and finished in sixth place, and at
8-499: A French basketball figure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chorale Roanne Basket Chorale Roanne Basket is a professional basketball club that is based in Roanne , France . The club plays in the first division LNB Pro A . Their home arena is Halle André Vacheresse . The club was founded in 1937 and the team's colors are blue and white. Their mascot is a black woman named Putriphelia. In Chorale's history,
12-535: The 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics , where France finished in eighth place. He later was involved with a number of basketball stadiums, particularly Joyeuse Boule in Roanne , of which he was président. Vacheresse died in July 2000. The town of Roanne named a new sports hall with a capacity of 3,200 seats after him on 20 January 2001. In 2000, he won the Robert Busnel medal. This biographical article relating to
16-550: The team won two national titles; in 1959 and most recent in 2007. The teams honour list also includes a La Semaine des As Cup (in 2007) and multiple European campaigns. In the 2007–08 season, the club even played in the top level Euroleague . In the 2013–14 season, the club was relegated to the LNB Pro B . In the 2018–19 season, Roanne won the Pro B championship and promoted back to the Pro A after
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