Henry Chavancy
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| Date of birth | 22 May 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Strasbourg, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 97 kg (15 st 4 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Henry Chavancy (born 22 May 1988 in Strasbourg) is a French rugby union player. He plays as a centre for Racing 92 in the Top 14.
Early life
[edit]He studied at lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague and lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr after 2 years at the secondary school Joseph Kessel in Djibouti. He also studied 4 years at the Léonard de Vinci Business School.
Career
[edit]Club
[edit]Henry Chavancy has been playing for the Racing Métro 92 since 1999. He is 2005 French Taddei Champion, 2009 French Pro D2 Champion and 2011 Top 14 semi-finalist. He played his first game of Pro D2 during the 2007/2008 season. During the 2008/2009 season he played 20 games and become French Champion of Pro D2 with his team. Since 2009 he has been playing 54 Top 14 games and 8 games during the European Cup.
In 2016, he won Top 14 by defeating Toulon in the final at Camp Nou in Barcelona, before an attendance exceeding 99,000 people.[1]
International
[edit]Under-20 French International player,[2] he played the worldchampionship in June 2008[3] and then the college worldchampionship if rugby 7 the same year. In 2009 he played during six nations championship with the university French team. In June 2010 he was selected in the French team A for the Churchill Cup[4] in the United-States.
Chavancy made his debut against Ireland in the 2017 Six Nations replacing Rémi Lamerat in the 59th minute of a 19–9 away loss.[5]
Honours
[edit]Racing 92
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Racing 92 beat Toulon to win Top 14 Rugby title". rugbyweek.com. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ Les révélations de l’année, sur www.leparisien.fr, published 26 december 2008, accessed 27 september 2009
- ^ Henry Chavancy statistics during the under-20 worldchampionship Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, www.irb.com, accessed 27 september 2009
- ^ Trombinoscope of the 2010 Churchill Cup Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine,(FFR)French Rugby Federation website
- ^ "Six Nations 2017: Ireland 19-9 France". BBC. 25 February 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2021.