Lucien Mias

Lucien Mias

Mias in 2020
Date of birth	(1930-09-29)29 September 1930
Place of birth	Saint-Germain-de-Calberte, France
Date of death	13 May 2024(2024-05-13) (aged 93)
Place of death	Mazamet, France
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight	108 kg (238 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1949–1950 Carcassonne () 1950–1962 Mazamet () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1951–1959 France 29 (3)

Lucien Mias (29 September 1930 – 13 May 2024) was an international rugby union player for France. His usual position was lock.

Mias captained the French team to win the 1958 France rugby union tour of South Africa, and to their first Five Nations Championship in 1959. He was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2005. Mias died on 13 May 2024, at the age of 93.[1]

In his time, rugby union was an amateur sport. Apart from his sports career, he was working as a rural public schoolteacher then as a geriatrician.[2]

References

1. "Rugby : légende du XV de France, Lucien Mias est décédé". Sud Ouest. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
2. Escot, Richard (13 May 2024). "Légende du rugby français, Lucien Mias est mort". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 13 May 2024.

External links

• Lucien Mias at ESPNscrum
• Lucien Mias at the World Rugby Hall of Fame