Date of birth | 4 May 1970 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Périgueux, France | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 238 lb (108 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Thierry Labrousse (born 4 May 1970) is a French former professional rugby union player.
Born in Périgueux, Labrousse was a back-row forward, most often used as a number eight. He captained CA Périgueux to the French Group B championship title in 1993, before linking up with CA Brive, from where he was capped twice for France in 1996. On his international debut, a win over Romania at Aurillac, he crossed over for two tries. [1] His other cap came against the touring Springboks. He played in CA Brive's 1997 Heineken Cup final win over the Leicester Tigers. [2]
Labrousse coached CA Périgueux from 2005 to 2010, then again in 2014. [3] [4]