Élisa Riffonneau
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| Born | (2003-11-26) 26 November 2003 (age 22) Joué-lès-Tours, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Élisa Riffonneau (born 26 November 2003) is a French international rugby union player who plays as a hooker.
Originally from Joué-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire),[2] Riffonneau started playing rugby at the age of 6 with US Joué.[3][4] She briefly switched to handball, which she played for five years, before returning to rugby after missing selection for the Pôle Espoirs in Orléans.[5] Feeling more comfortable in rugby, she decided to pursue it seriously.[5]
Riffonneau attended Joliot-Curie High School, then Chateaubriand High School in Rennes, graduating with the highest honors.[6] Thanks to her status as a high-level athlete, she was admitted to Sciences Po Rennes, where she benefits from an adapted program allowing her to combine her studies and rugby career.[6]
Rugby career
Club career
After playing for Stade Rennais Rugby from 2018 to 2023,[3][7] Riffonneau joined the Ealing Trailfinders Women in England for the 2023–2024 season.[8][9] She was the only French international competing in the English league that season.[5]
In 2024, Riffonneau returned to France and signed with the FC Grenoble Amazones.[10]
International career
Riffonneau signed a professional contract with the French Rugby Federation in 2023.[11]
Riffonneau made her debut for the France women's national team in April 2023 during the Women's Six Nations Championship against Ireland.[12] Later that year, she participated in the inaugural WXV tournament in New Zealand,[5] where she scored her first international try against Australia.[13]
In 2024, Riffonneau was again selected for the Women's Six Nations Championship, playing in four matches[12] and scoring one try.[14] She was selected in the 2024 WXV tournament.[15]
In 2025, Riffonneau was selected for the Women's Six Nations Championship.[16] She played 4 out of 5 matches.[12] On 2 August 2025, she was named in the French side to the Women's Rugby World Cup in England.[17][18]
References
- ↑ "Elisa Riffonneau - France - Six Nations Feminin". www.sixnationsrugby.com.
- ↑ "Une championne à la rencontre des enfants". Mairie de Joué-lès-Tours (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- 1 2 "Rugby. Élite féminine : Élisa Riffonneau « aime ce groupe de copines » au Stade Rennais". Ouest-France. 25 February 2023.
- ↑ "Rugby - Tournoi des VI Nations féminin. Feleu et Gros confortées, Bourgeois première : la composition des Bleues en Irlande". Le Dauphiné libéré. 30 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023..
- 1 2 3 4 "Six nations 2024 : Elisa Riffonneau, la plus anglaise des Bleues". Franceinfo (in French). 25 April 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- 1 2 "Élisa Riffonneau". Portraits d'anciens (in French). 4 October 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "Rugby : la Jocondienne Élisa Riffonneau quitte Rennes pour jouer en Angleterre". lanouvellerepublique.fr (in French). 7 June 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "Elisa Riffonneau". Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club. 3 May 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "En 3ème année à Science Po, Élisa Riffonneau allie études et rugby en Angleterre". www.lequotidiendusport.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "Rugby - Élite 1 féminine. Une arrivée et des départs évités... Ça frémit chez les internationales au FCG". www.ledauphine.com (in French). 12 June 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "XV de France féminin : Bourgeois et Riffonneau signent, les "déçues" du Mondial prolongées". rugbyrama.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- 1 2 3 "Elisa Riffonneau". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ Bouet, Hugo. "FRANCE PUTTING EVERYTHING ON GREEN - RIFFONNEAU - Six Nations Feminin". www.sixnationsrugby.com (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "Entrée réussie pour le XV de France féminin dans le Tournoi des Six Nations 2024". Le Télégramme (in French). 23 March 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "XV de France féminin : Le groupe pour le Women XV". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "Six Nations féminin : les Bleues avec l'ancienne Rennaise Elisa Riffonneau pour affronter l'Italie". Le Télégramme (in French). 17 April 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ↑ "XV de France féminin : Le groupe pour la Coupe du monde" [French women's XV: The squad for the World Cup]. Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
- ↑ "France declares squad for women's RWC 2025". Rugby World Cup. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
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