Lénaïg Corson (March 3, 1989) is a French international rugby player. She has 35 caps for the French national team.
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| Citizenship | French |
| Born | March 3, 1989 |
| Occupation | rugby union player  |
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| Sport | rugby union |
Early life
editLénaïg Corson was born on March 3, 1989.[1] At the age of 6, she began playing sport. She took up athletics at the Ploumilliau athletics school. Her specialty was the heptathlon. She competed in this sport for 14 years with the TGA and then the Lannion Athlétisme club.[2]
Club career
editCorson began playing rugby in 2009, at the age of 20, when she moved to Rennes to study. She explains that it was the only sport she could combine with her university schedule.[2][3]
Between 2010 and 2011, she plays for the Burnside Rugby Union club in Adelaide.[2]
From 2011 to 2018, she plays for the Rennes rugby club. She twice won the French university rugby championship with the Rennes university rugby team, in 2013 and 2014.[4]
From 2018 to 2022, she plays for the Paris rugby club.[2][5]
In the summer of 2022, she joined Wasps in England. However, the club went into receivership a few weeks after her arrival. Despite the detachment of the women's team, the professional structure was unable to honor its financial contract. She then joined another London team, Harlequins, who also play in the English women's rugby league.[6][7]
International career
editOn November 21, 2012, she won her first cap for the French national team against the USA in Orléans.[8]
She signed a semi-professional contract with the French Rugby Federation in 2014.[2][9][10]
She was selected for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup.[11][12] She won a Bronze medal and was named the best player of the match.[13][14]
She was European vice-champion with the French Rugby 7s team in 2016 and 2018. She is a Bronze medalist on the World Rugby circuit in 2018.[2]
Corson took part in five 6 Nations Tournaments in 2013, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021.[2][15]
Retirement
editLénaïg Corson retires at the end of the 2023 season after a 14-year career. She explains that she could have played one or two more seasons, but that she was living in precarious conditions, earning 800 pounds a month (around 940 euros), which was the price of her rent.[16][17][18] She remains connected to rugby, however, and has launched her women's rugby academy, the “RugbyGirl Academy”.[19][20][21][22]
TV and radio career
editShe is a consultant for the 2023 Men's Rugby World Cup for TV channel M6 and radio station RMC.[23][24][25]
References
edit- ^ "CORSON Lénaïg". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Mon Parcours". lenaig-corson.fr. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Coupe du monde de rugby féminin : qui est Lenaïg Corson ? - Elle". elle.fr (in French). 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Ouest-France (2014-06-13). "Rugby féminin : un sacre national pour Rennes 2". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Ferrisi, Michaël (2021-10-07). "Lénaïg Corson et Clément Castets, deux engagé(e)s au Stade Français". Ecolosport (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ ""Du jour au lendemain sur la paille", récit de la fin d'aventure de Corson chez les Wasps". rugbyrama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "La Bretonne Lenaïg Corson s'engage chez les Harlequins". Le Télégramme (in French). 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Heptathlon, Lomu, débuts à 20 ans... voici Lenaïg Corson". rugbyrama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Jacquemard, Nicolas (2017-08-04). "Lénaïg Corson, d'un rugby à un autre". Dicodusport (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Professionnalisation : les Françaises au milieu du gué". rugbyrama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Coupe du monde féminine de rugby : les Françaises au stade de la reconnaissance" (in French). 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "RUGBY FEMININ. France : Lénaïg Corson, entre raffuts, sourire et patience". www.ledauphine.com (in French). August 21, 2017. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Rugby : la coupe du monde des féminines avec Lenaïg Corson - France Bleu". ici par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ worldrugby.org. "Women's Rugby World Cup 2017 - Finals - 26th August". www.world.rugby. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Rugby Féminin. L'internationale française Lenaïg Corson prend sa retraite : "Merci le Rugby !"". actu.fr (in French). 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Rugby. Lenaig Corson arrête sa carrière : "Je suis aujourd'hui une femme hyper déterminée"". actu.fr (in French). 2023-07-07. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Rugby. La légende bretonne Lenaïg Corson met un terme à sa carrière". France 3 Bretagne (in French). 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Rugby (F) : Lénaïg Corson annonce sa retraite". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ ""RugbyGirl Académie", ce projet social et rugbystique de Lénaïg Corson". rugbyrama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Ferrisi, Michaël (2024-02-23). "« Sport vers le futur » à la rencontre de Lenaïg Corson". Ecolosport (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ GUILLAUD-LUCET, Victor (2024-07-13). "À Perros-Guirec, les rugbygirl de Lénaïg Corson terminent leur stage par un beach rugby à Trestraou". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Tallieu, Anthony (July 11, 2023). ""Les freins à la pratique sont dingues": le combat de Lenaïg Corson pour développer le rugby féminin". www.eurosport.fr. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Le Vieux-Marché. Pendant le Mondial de rugby, l'ex-Bleue Lenaïg Corson va de l'avant". actu.fr (in French). 2023-09-17. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Découvrez le portrait de Lénaïg CORSON, la marraine du club". rugbykreiztreger.ffr.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "XV de France (F) : Lenaïg Corson prend sa retraite". Le Figaro (in French). 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2024-08-28.