Robert Busnel

Robert Busnel
	Real Madrid
Career highlights and awards
	As player: 7× French League champion (1930, 1931, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1951); As head coach: 3× FIBA European Selection (1964, 1966, 1967); Spanish League champion (1966); Spanish Cup winner (1966); French League champion (1951); As contributor: Olympic Order (1990); National Order of Merit (France); Officer of the Legion of Honor (1989); French National Sports Hall of Fame (1994); French Basketball Hall of Fame (2005);
	FIBA Hall of Fame as player
Representing France
Men's Basketball Player
EuroBasket
Men's Basketball Head Coach
Olympic Games
EuroBasket

Robert Busnel (19 September 1914 – 15 March 1991) was a French professional

FIBA Hall of Fame

.

Basketball playing career

During his playing career, Busnel played club basketball with FA Mulhouse, FC Grenoble, ESSMG Lyon, UA Marseille, and Racing Club de France.

Busnel played for the senior

1949 EuroBasket

, where he won a silver medal.

Basketball coaching career

Busnel

French national men's team (1947–1957), winning a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, a silver medal at EuroBasket 1949 (he was a player-coach in that tournament), and bronze medals at EuroBasket 1951 and EuroBasket 1953

.

In the 1965–66 season, he coached Real Madrid, on the club level.

Basketball administrative career

Busnel was the technical director (1960–1964), and President (1967–1980), of the

FIBA

, in 1984–1990.

Personal life and death

Busnel received the

auto crash, in 1991, outside of Lyon.^[2]

Awards and accomplishments

Club playing career

7×
French League
Champion: (1930, 1931, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1951)

Club coaching career

French League

Champion: (1951)

3×

FIBA European Selection

: (1964, 1966, 1967)

Spanish League Champion: (1966)
Spanish Cup
Winner: (1966)

References

^ The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales · Page 79.
^ "Tragic death of Robert Busnel". Olympic Review (283): 193. May 1991. Retrieved December 12, 2018.

External links

[1] The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales · Page 79.

[2] "Tragic death of Robert Busnel". Olympic Review (283): 193. May 1991. Retrieved December 12, 2018.

[2]

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