Clara Joyeux

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Clara Joyeux
Date of birth (1998-01-10) 10 January 1998 (age 25)
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight89 kg (196 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)

Limoges

Blagnac
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International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
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Clara Joyeux (born 10 January 1998) is a French international rugby union player. [1] She competed at the 2019 Women's Rugby Super Series and at the 2020, 2021, and 2022 Women's Six Nations Championship's. She also competed at the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

Career

Joyeux studied at the Garenne college in Gramat; from 2008 to 2015, she played with the JS Gramat club, 4, [2] [3]

Spotted by CA Brive, she competed with Les Vaseix agricultural high school in Limoges, which won the French high school championship. [4]

She then played with the Limoges, then was spotted by the national coaches during an internship at the National Rugby Center in May 2016. [4]

She was selected in 2017 for the under 20 France national team, for a World Cup training course. In 2017, she joined women's Blagnac rugby.

In November 2018, she was one of the first 24 French rugby union players to sign a half-time federal contract. [5] Her contract is extended for the 2019-2020 season. [6] She had her first cap for the French rugby union team on 2 February 2019 against Wales for the first day of the 2019 Women's Six Nations Tournament. [7]

In 2022, she was selected to compete in the Rugby World Cup. [8] She was named in France's squad for the 2023 Women's Six Nations Championship. [9] [10]

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References

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  2. "Lot. Dans le rugby lotois, « les filles ne comptent pas pour des prunes »". actu.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-24.
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  4. 1 2 "4 choses à savoir sur Clara Joyeux (XV de France féminin) - Le Sport au Féminin". 2020-09-24. Archived from the original on 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  5. "24 joueuses de l'équipe de France sous contrat fédéral à mi-temps". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  6. "26 Affamées !". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-24.
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  10. Rendell, Sarah (2023-04-27). "France Women's Six Nations Squad – Team to face England". Rugby World. Retrieved 2023-04-28.