Date of birth | 31 July 1961 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Pau, France | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 177 lb (80 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
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Jérôme Bianchi (born 31 July 1961) is a French former international rugby union player.
Bianchi, who spent his childhood in Casablanca, played his rugby as a fullback [1]
A RC Toulon player, Bianchi was the top point-scorer in the 1984–85 French Championship and played in the club's 1986–87 Brennus Shield title. He won a France cap against Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1986. [2]
Bianchi is a physiotherapist who in 2013 began working with Maria Sharapova. [3]
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