Gaëlle Skrela

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Gaëlle Skrela (born 24 January 1983) is a retired French basketball player for Basket Lattes and the French national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship.[1] In 2016 she represented France at the 2016 Summer Olympics where her team lost 67-86 to the United States.[2] She retired from basketball soon after the end of the Olympic games.[3]

Gaëlle Skrela
Skrela in 2013
No. 12 – Basket Lattes
PositionGuard
LeagueLFB
Personal information
Born (1983-01-24) 24 January 1983 (age 41)
Toulouse, France
NationalityFrench
Listed height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Medals
EuroBasket
Silver medal – second place 2013 France
Silver medal – second place 2015 Hungary/Romania
Silver medal – second place 2017 Czech Republic

She is a sister to French international rugby union player David Skrela and is a daughter of former coach, Jean-Claude Skrela.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ "FIBA profile". fiba.com. Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  2. ^ "Gaëlle Skrela : «En face, c'était la meilleure équipe du monde»" [Gaëlle Skrela: "On one hand, it was the best team in the world"]. Le Figaro (in French). August 19, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  3. ^ "Le maillot à Lattes-Montpellier de Gaëlle Skrela retire!". November 27, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  4. ^ "Basket: Gaëlle Skrela, le deuxième départ après l'Euro". Le Parisien (in French). June 21, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2018.