Sara Mannini

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Sara Mannini
Date of birth (2005-08-28) 28 August 2005 (age 19)
Place of birth Pisa, Italy
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) fly-half
Current team Colorno Women
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Colorno Women (0)
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2024–Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 10 (0)

Sara Mannini (born 28 August 2005) is an Italian international rugby union player who plays as fly-half for the women's team of Rugby Colorno. Since 2024, she also represents Italy at senior level. [1]

Career

Mannini is from Pisa and started playing rugby union in 2015 at CUS Pisa. She went on to play for Puma Bisenzio Rugby in Prato. [2] After playing for Italy at under-18 level she went on to play domestically in the Women's Elite Series A for club side Colorno. [3]

She represented Italy in the Under 20 Women’s Summer Series in Parma in 2024 where she was named in the Team of the Series. [4] She was selected for her senior international debut for Italy women's national rugby union team against Japan in the WXV in September 2024 in Piacenza. [5]

She continued with the Italian team and was selected for the 2025 Women's Six Nations Championship. [6] She was named in the Italian squad for the Rugby World Cup in England. [7] [8]

References

  1. "Sara Mannini". Ultimate Rugby. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  2. "Rugby: Sara Mannini from Pisa was named best player at the Treviso Under-14 tournament". Cupisa. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  3. "Sara Mannini at the national rugby team training camp". quinewspisa.it. 18 January 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  4. "Youth National Teams - Italy Women's U20 Team: Five Italian athletes named to the "Team of the Series"". OnRugby. 25 July 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  5. "A Piacenza una buona Italia batte il Giappone". ilpiacenza.it (in Italian). 14 September 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  6. "Italy Women's squad selected for the 2025 Guinness Women's Six Nations". Federugby.it. 5 March 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  7. Lomax, Lucy (19 August 2025). "Ten breakthrough players to watch at this World Cup". Rugby Pass. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  8. "Italy name experienced squad for Women's RWC 2025". Rugby World Cup 2025 England. 8 November 2025. Retrieved 14 August 2025.