EuroBasket Women 2013 to be held in France

France will host the Senior Women Basketball European Championship in 2013.  France became European Champions for the second time in their history during the 2009 edition of EuroBasket in Latvia.

France hosted the tournament in 2001 and won the trophy for the first time with the following players:

Laure Savasta, Sandra Le Dréan, Catherine Melain, Edwige Lawson, Yannick Souvré, Audrey Sauret-Gillespie, Nathalie Lesdema, Sandra Dijon, Dominique Tonnerre, Isabelle Fijalkowski, Laétitia Moussard, Nicole Antibe