Victor Wembanyama,

Wembanyama was active in sports from a young age, practicing judo and playing football (soccer) before focusing on basketball. His parents had both competed at an international level in their respective sports—his father, Félix Wembanyama, having been a track and field athlete who participated in the long jump and triple jump events and his mother, Elodie de Fautereau, having been a basketball player for the French national team before going on to coach the sport at the youth level. By age seven, Victor had begun training with local basketball club Entente Le Chesnay–Versailles (ELCV). Throughout his youth basketball career, he regularly competed in divisions above his age level, numbering among the youngest players in those divisions.