Jean Gachassin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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President of the French tennis Federation and rugby union footballer
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Place of Birth: Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Occitania, France
About Jean Gachassin
- Jean Gachassin (born 23 December 1941) is a former French rugby union footballer from Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées.
- Gachassin is also the former President of the Fédération Française de Tennis. He was a French international rugby union player.
- His usual positions were wing three quarter, center three quarter, fullback and fly half.
- In fact he was so versatile that he played every back position for France with the exception of scrum half.
- He was a part of the France national rugby union team which won its first Grand Slam in the 1968 Five Nations tournament.
- Gachassin played as an international for France from 1961 to 1969.
- He was nicknamed Peter Pan and several other nicknames because of his diminutive size.
- He is considered one of the best backs France ever produced and scored some of the most spectacular tries of the 1960s.
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