| Born | 13 May 1936 Tarn-et-Garonne, France | ||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 25 April 2010 (aged 73) Montauban, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 209 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
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Jean-Michel Cabanier (13 May 1936 — 25 April 2010) was a French rugby union international.
Raised in Tarn-et-Garonne, Cabanier played originally for Castelsarrasinois but spent most of his career with US Montauban, where he won a Brennus Shield in the 1966–67 season. [1]
Cabanier, hooker in a strong France national team during the 1960s, earned a total of 26 caps, forming a front-row with Arnaldo Gruarin and Jean-Claude Berejnoï that was considered the world's best. [2] He was the Oscar du Midi runner-up in 1967 and made two appearances for France in their grand slam-winning 1968 Five Nations campaign. [3]