Mélissande Llorens

Mélissande Llorens

Llorens in 2022
Date of birth	(2002-06-18) 18 June 2002 (age 22)
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Winger Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) Blagnac Rugby (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2021–Present  France 9 (10)

Mélissande Llorens (born 18 June 2002) is a French international rugby union player. She plays as a winger in Blagnac women's rugby as well as in the France women's national rugby union team.

She competed at the 2021 Rugby World Cup, and 2022 Women's Six Nations Championship.

Career

Llorens began rugby at the age of 12 at Tyrosse, then joined the Toulouse women's rugby hope center in 2017.[1] She joined Blagnac Women's Rugby in 2018. At the same time, she pursued nursing studies at the University Hospital of Toulouse.[1]

Llorens played for the first time in the France team on 6 November 2021, for a match against South Africa won 46 to 3.[2] Entering the 68th minute, she scored a try four minutes later, which would be called "try of the year 2021” by the French Rugby Federation.[3][4]

Llorens was named in France's squad for the 2023 Women's Six Nations Championship.[5][6]

References

1. "Magazine Ernest #5". calameo.com. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
2. "LLORENS Melissande". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Retrieved 24 October 2022.
3. "L'essai de Melissande Llorens élu essai de l'année 2021". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Retrieved 24 October 2022.
4. Harzic, Erwan (26 December 2021). "VIDEO. FFR. Des passes et des cannes, voici le plus bel essai de l'année signée Mélissande Llorens". Le Rugbynistère (in French). Retrieved 24 October 2022.
5. Eddison, Paul (7 March 2023). "France name squad for TikTok Women's Six Nations". TikTok Women’s Six Nations. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
6. Rendell, Sarah (27 April 2023). "France Women's Six Nations Squad – Team to face England". Rugby World. Retrieved 28 April 2023.