Céline Dumerc with Basket Landes. JB Autissier
At 40, Céline Dumerc has become the top scorer in the history of the women’s league, overtaking Paoline Salagnac.
Céline Dumerc became Saturday the best scorer in the history of the Women’s League during the victory of Basket Landes against Landerneau (84-79).
The London Olympic vice-champion in 2012 and 2009 European champion with Les Bleues is ahead with 4,649 points scored by her ex-Bourges teammate Paoline Salagnac (4,648 points), retired since 2020.
At 40, the stainless Céline Dumerc still compiled 10 points and delivered 8 assists on Saturday with Basket Landes, sixth in the Championship and in a good position to qualify for the final phase.
«With this record as the best scorer in the history of the Women’s League, she enters even more into the legend of French basketball for which she gave so much during her rich career. Its simplicity, its proximity and its availability make it a source of inspiration and a model for the youngest.“, praised in a press release the president of the Women’s League Carole Force about the one who already held the record for matches played.
Ranking of the best scorers in LFB (since 1998)
1. Celine Dumerc / 4,649 points scored
2. Pauline Salagnac / 4 648
3. Elena Nikipolskaia / 4 147
