Louis Bertorelle (5 August 1932 – 27 February 2012)
was a French
basketball
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player. He was inducted into the
French Basketball Hall of Fame
The French Basketball Academy ( French: Académie du basket-ball français) is a hall of fame that honors individuals (or whole teams) that have contributed to the spread and improvement of French basketball, through their sporting contributions, ...
, in 2008.
French national team
Bertorelle played at the
1960 Summer Olympic Games
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, with the senior
French national basketball team
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.
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1932 births
2012 deaths
French men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players of France
Basketball players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Tarn (department)
Small forwards
CEP Lorient players
1954 FIBA World Championship players
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