Anne-Marie Colchen was a French high jumper who also played basketball at international level. She was born on 8 December 1925 in Le Havre and died on 26 January 2017 in Sanary-sur-Mer, and she competed for ASAN Le Havre. She won the high jump at the 1946 European Championships in Oslo, finished sixth in the high jump at the 1950 European Championships, and competed in the high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics, where she placed equal fourteenth. Olympedia lists a personal best of 1.638 metres from 1949 and notes that she played 63 international basketball matches and was part of the team that won bronze at the 1953 World Championships.
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