Anne-Cécile Ciofani (born 14 December 1993) is a French rugby player. She was awarded World Rugby Women’s Sevens Player of the Year for 2021.

Life

She discovered rugby at age 18 when she started studying Science and technology of physical and sports activities (STAPS), while she practiced the heptathlon: Six months after her debut, however, she is summoned to the Elite Center of Marcoussis, but is only selected in the national team in 2018. In 2018, when she finished her first year as a professional player at

AC Bobigny AC Bobigny 93 Rugby is a rugby union team from Île-de-France which plays in Fédérale 1 (D3). The club is based in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis. The rugby union section was created in 1965 as part of the sports club. The independent associati ...

, she became vice-champion of the world of rugby 7 with the France team. She scored a test on the last action in the game against Australia, Olympic champion, which qualified France in the final and was elected best new player of the world tournament. She came from a sporting family, both parents participated in Olympiads, her father

Walter Ciofani Walter Ciofani (born 17 February 1962 in Sedan, Ardennes) is a retired French hammer thrower. His personal best throw is 78.50 metres, achieved in May 1985 in Bourg-en-Bresse Bourg-en-Bresse (; frp, Bôrg) is the Prefectures in France, prefect ...

in the

hammer throw The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consis ...

in Los Angeles in 1984, and her Cameroonian mother Jeanne Ngo Minyemeck in women's shot put and the women's discus throw at Seoul in 1988. Her sisters Juliette (Junior French Champion) and Audrey Ciofani (French Champion Hope and Vice Elite Champion) are athletes at the hammer throw and licensed at the Athletic Circle of Montreuil 93.

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