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Jean-Baptiste Élissalde

Jean-Baptiste Élissalde
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JB Elissalde (Stade Toulousain), August 2008
Nickname le Petit rat (the small rat)
Date of birth (1977-11-23) 23 November 1977 (age 39)
Place of birth La Rochelle
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 73 kg (11 st 7 lb)
Notable relative(s)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum half, Fly-half
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1997–2002

2002–2010

1998–2010

2010
2011–2012
Stade Rochelais
Stade Toulousain
French Barbarians
Barbarians
Stade Toulousain
?

190

3

2
1
((?)

(1776)

(?)

(9)
(0))
Correct as of 21 May 2012
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1997
2002–2003
2000–2008
Fra. U21
France A
France
(?)
(3)
35
((?)
(?)
(214))
Correct as of 21 May 2012
Teams coached
Years Team
2010– Stade Toulousain (backs)
Correct as of 21 May 2012
Position(s) Scrum half, Fly-half
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1997–2002

2002–2010

1998–2010

2010
2011–2012
Stade Rochelais
Stade Toulousain
French Barbarians
Barbarians
Stade Toulousain
?

190

3

2
1
((?)

(1776)

(?)

(9)
(0))
Correct as of 21 May 2012
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1997
2002–2003
2000–2008
Fra. U21
France A
France
(?)
(3)
35
((?)
(?)
(214))
Correct as of 21 May 2012
Teams coached
Years Team
2010– Stade Toulousain (backs)
Correct as of 21 May 2012

Jean-Baptiste Élissalde (born 23 November 1977) is a former French rugby union player, playing either as a scrum-half or as a fly-half, and current backs coach of the Stade Toulousain.

Born 23 November 1977 in La Rochelle, France, Élissalde is a third generation French international. His maternal grandfather Laurent Bidart and his father Jean-Pierre Élissalde both represented France at international level. Élissalde began playing rugby with La Rochelle, where his father was a coach. He made his first appearance with the professional team in the 1997–8 season. Élissalde then gained caps with the France U21 team.

He played for La Rochelle until 2002 when La Rochelle dropped from the top tier championship and decided to go to Toulouse, where he initially had a hard time breaking into the senior squad, competing against the likes of Frédéric Michalak and Yann Delaigue. He then became the first choice scrum-half at Toulouse and was competing with Biarritz Olympique's Dimitri Yachvili for the No. 9 shirt in the French national team. Élissalde was a member of the Toulouse teams that won the Heineken Cup three times in 2003, 2005 and 2010, and the Top 14 winning team of 2008.

He made his international debut against Scotland in the 2000 Six Nations as a replacement for fly-half Gérald Merceron and went on to score his first international points later that year in a test against Romania with a try eight minutes after coming in, again for Merceron. Dropping to the France A side thus making no subsequent full international appearance until the 2003 Six Nations, he was unable to force his way into the 2003 French World Cup squad.


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