Sylvain Marconnet

Sylvain Marconnet

Sylvain Marconnet, June 2009
Date of birth	(1976-04-08) 8 April 1976 (age 41)
Place of birth	Givors
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	115 kg (18 st 2 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1993-1994 Givors () Correct as of 21 March 2007 Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1994-1997 1997-2010 2010-2012 FC Grenoble Stade Français Biarritz Olympique 224 58 (85) (0) Correct as of 21 March 2007 National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1998- France 84 (15) Correct as of 23 November 2011

Sylvain Marconnet (born 8 April 1976) is a French rugby union footballer who played for Biarritz Olympique having signed from Stade Français in the Top 14 club competition in France. His usual position is prop. Marconnet has played for France, including representing them at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia.

He made his debut for Stade Français during the 1997-98 season, which was also the year that they were crowned champions of France. Marconnet made his international debut for France on 15 November 1998, in a match against Argentina in Nantes. The match was won by France, 34 points to 14. He played one other test that year, the following week, against the Wallabies at the Stade de France, which was won by Australia.

Marconnet played in all of France's 1999 Five Nations Championship. He played in two June tests that year, in games against Tonga and Romania. Stade Français did make it to the final of the domestic championship, which they won, defeating US Colomiers. He did play in three tests in November 2000 though, in a match against Australia, and two against the All Blacks. In 2001 Stade Français were finalists at the 2000-01 Heineken Cup which was lost to the Leicester Tigers in the Parc des Princes, Paris, and he played in all of France's 2001 Six Nations Championship fixtures, and did the same the following season, in the 2002 Six Nations Championship, as well as getting another three caps for France in November of that year.