Laurent Labit

Laurent Labit (born 8 May 1973) is a retired French rugby union footballer, and current backs coach of the French national team.

Laurent Labit
Date of birth (1968-05-08) 8 May 1968
Place of birthRevel, France
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Rugby union career
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1987–1996
2003–2005
1996–1999
1999–2002
2002–2003
2003–2004		 Castres
Colomiers
Béziers
Bordeaux-Bègles
UA Gaillac		 ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
France A
France U23
Coaching career
Years Team
2004–2009
2009–2013
2013–2019
2019–		 Montauban
Castres
Racing 92
France (backs)

Early life

Labit was born in Revel, France. He began his playing career in his home town of Rugby Club Revélois before moving to Castres.[1]

Career

He started his playing career at Rugby Club Revelois. Labit later joined Castres Olympique where he won the 1992–93 French Rugby Union Championship at the Parc des Princes against Grenoble by beating them 14-11 in the final, in a match decided by an irregular try accorded by the referee. A try by Olivier Brouzet is denied to FC Grenoble and the decisive try by Gary Whetton was awarded by the referee, Daniel Salles, when in fact the defender Hueber from Grenoble touched down the ball first in his try zone. This error gave the title to Castres. Salles admitted the error only 13 years later.[2]

"Rugby will come out even stronger."[3]

Labit also spent some time at US Colomiers , AS Béziers , Union Bordeaux-Bègles and UA Gaillac where he an made impact as a back line player. In his early years he represented France at a U23 level and later played for France A, but never managed to get selected for France national rugby union team

Labit's coaching career started at US Montauban in 2004, where he helped them get promoted into the Top 14 in the 2006 season together with Laurent Travers. At the end of the 2008-2009 season, Labit joined Olympic Castres with Laurent Travers and in the 2012 - 2013 season, both coaches lead the club to win the Top 14 Championship after which both Labit and Travers where recruited by Racing Métro, now known as Racing 92, for the 2013 - 2014 Top 14 season, Racing Metro managed to get the semi-finals before being eliminated from the tournament.[4]

Playing career

Coaching career

Notes and references
  1. Racing 92 (5 June 2013). "Laurent LABIT". Racing 92. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  2. Escot, Richard; Rivière, Jacques (2010). Un siècle de rugby (in French) (13th ed.). Calmann-Lévy. p. 268. ISBN 978-2-7021-4118-2.
  3. "Archyde".
  4. "Toulon v Racing Metro". Lequipe. Archived from the original on 20 May 2014.
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