Estelle Sartini (born 1 June 1973) is a French former

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player, who captained the

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. She made 89 appearances for France between 1998 and 2008.

Personal life

Aside from rugby, Sartini has worked as a

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teacher, in

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, u ...

Career

Sartini originally played

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, before switching to

at the age of 16. Sartini was a winger. At club level, Sartini played for . Between 1998 and 2008, she played in 11 consecutive semi-finals of the French women's Premier Division, and was part of the Caen team that lost four finals between 2003 and 2007. At international level, Sartini made 89 appearances for the

. In the

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, she scored a try against

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. France scored 9 tries in the match. She was part of the French team that won the

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in the

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, and was in their squad for the

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. In 2005, Sartini was captain of the France team, and she also captained the side at the

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. Sartini retired from rugby in 2008, to move from Caen to Versailles. Between 2012 and 2017, she worked as a commentator for

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channel

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, and she was also a reporter for

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during the

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in France.

References

France international rugby union players French female rugby union players 1973 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) France women's international rugby union players Rugby union wings {{France-rugbyunion-bio-stub