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| Date of birth | 29 August 2002 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jefferson-Lee Joseph (born 29 August 2002) is a French rugby union player. He plays as a wing for SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne and the France national rugby sevens team.
He is from Duras, in Lot-et-Garonne. [3] A 15-a side player at SU Agen where he plays on the wing having made a try-scoring debut for the club in 2022 as an 18 year-old away against Oyonnax Rugby. [4] He signed a two-year contract with the club in February 2023. [5] However, he was made available to the France national rugby sevens team in September 2023 in preparation for a home Olympics the following year. [3]
He played as France 7s won the 2024 USA Sevens in Los Angeles, beating Great Britain in the final for their first international tournament win for 19 years. [6] In June 2024, he scored in the final as France won the 2024 Spain Sevens in Madrid. [7] In July 2024, he was confirmed in the French team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [8]
Born in France, Joseph is of Guadeloupean descent. [9]
His father was Jeff Joseph. A famous Lead singer and Songwriter from the island of Dominica.
His original band "Grammacks" are legends of a Caribbean musical genre called "Cadence-lypso" that preceded and heavily influenced "Zouk".
Lot-et-Garonne is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019. Its prefecture and largest city is Agen.
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