Chloé Pelle
Chloé Pelle in 2021
Date of birth (1989-11-14) 14 November 1989
Place of birthParis
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop, center, wing
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
RC Chilly-Mazarin (0)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
 France
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
 France
Medal record
Women's rugby sevens
Representing  France
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Bronze medal – third place2022 Cape TownTeam competition

Chloé Pelle (born 14 November 1989 in Paris) is a French international rugby union and rugby sevens player[1] who has played for RC Chilly-Mazarin as a wing since 2020[2] and for the France women's national rugby union team since 2011.

Biography

Pelle was born in Paris. As a youth, she played basketball. At the age of 20, she enrolled at the Ecole Centrale de Lille. She then started playing rugby sevens at the school and joined the Lille Metropole Rugby Club Villeneuve. She graduated with a degree in engineering and mathematics.[2][3]

She is a cybersecurity analyst at a large French bank.[4]

Career

Pelle played for Lille Métropole Rugby Club Villeneuvois from 2010 to 2018. In June 2018, she left Lille Métropole RCV to join Stade français, with whom she played for two years. She currently plays for RC Chilly-Mazarin.[4]

She played her first international rugby union game as part of the French team on October 29, 2011 against Italy. In 2017, she was selected to play in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. She is also a member of the French women's rugby sevens team.[5]

She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[6][7][8][9]

2020 Summer Olympics

Pelle competed at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics,[10] where the team won a silver medal.[11][12]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "FFR - Chloe Pelle". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  2. 1 2 "Rugby : quatre Villeneuvoises en coupe du monde". France 3 Hauts-de-France (in French). Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  3. ↑ "MEDIA GUIDE FRANCE 7 FEMININ HSBC NEW ZEALAND SEVENS 2019-2020" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-02-19.
  4. 1 2 "Chloé Pelle : tête chercheuse des Bleues et analyste en cybersécurité". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  5. ↑ "Chloé Pelle : un cerveau supersonique". midi-olympique.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  6. ↑ world.rugby. "Chloé Pelle - Player Stats | Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022". www.rwcsevens.com. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  7. ↑ "Country Summary: France - Rugby World Cup Sevens South Africa 2022". www.rwcsevens.com. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  8. ↑ "Fiji and Australia crowned Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 champions in Cape Town". www.rwcsevens.com. 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  9. ↑ "Australian women, Fiji men win Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town". ca.sports.yahoo.com. 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  10. ↑ "Chloe PELLE". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  11. ↑ "Rugby Sevens Women Gold Medal Match". Tokyo 2020 Olympics | NHK. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  12. ↑ "Les Bleues impuissantes en finale face à la Nouvelle-Zélande aux JO de Tokyo". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  13. ↑ "Décret du 8 septembre 2021 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national du Mérite". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Archived from the original on 2021-09-10. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
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