Émilie Gomis
Appearance
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Position | Guard |
League | LFB |
Personal information | |
Born | Senegal | 18 October 1983
Nationality | French |
Listed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Émilie Gomis (born 18 October 1983) is a French-Senegalese professional basketball player playing point guard position. She played for Fenerbahçe of the TWBL league. She wore the number 4. Competing for France, she won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1]
In January 2024, Gomis declined an offer to be an ambassador for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The organising committee for the games confirmed her refusal in a statement. Gomis published an anti-Israel post on Instagram before announcing the decision.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Émilie Gomis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ GOURY-LAFFONT, VICTOR. "French basketball star steps down from Olympics role over anti-Israel Instagram post". politico.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from WNBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- Émilie Gomis at Olympedia
- Émilie Gomis at Olympics.com
- Émilie Gomis at Olympic.org (archived)
- Émilie Gomis at Équipe de France (in French)
- Émilie Gomis at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
- Émilie Gomis at LFB at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 March 2016) (in French)
Categories:
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Fenerbahçe women's basketball players
- French expatriate basketball people in the United States
- French sportspeople of Senegalese descent
- French women's basketball players
- Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic basketball players for France
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Guards (basketball)
- French basketball biography stubs