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Chloé Pelle (born 14 November 1989 in Paris) is a French international
rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
and
rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...
player who has played for RC Chilly-Mazarin as a wing since 2020 and for the
France women's national rugby union team The France women's national rugby union team represents France in women's international rugby union. They played the first-ever women's rugby union test match against the Netherlands on 13 June 1982. They compete annually in the Women's Six ...
since 2011.


Biography

Pelle was born in
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. As a youth, she played basketball. At the age of 20, she enrolled at the Ecole Centrale de Lille. She then started playing rugby sevens at the school and joined the Lille Metropole Rugby Club Villeneuve. She graduated with a degree in engineering and mathematics. She is a
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analyst at a large French bank.


Career

Pelle played for Lille Métropole Rugby Club Villeneuvois from 2010 to 2018. In June 2018, she left Lille Métropole RCV to join Stade français, with whom she played for two years. She currently plays for RC Chilly-Mazarin. She played her first international rugby union game as part of the French team on October 29, 2011 against Italy. In 2017, she was selected to play in the
2017 Women's Rugby World Cup The 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup was the eighth edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup and was held in Ireland in August 2017. New Zealand became the 2017 champions by beating England 41–32 in the final on 26 August. Matches were held in Du ...
in Ireland. She is also a member of the French women's rugby sevens team. She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.


Summer Olympics

Pelle competed at the
2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
, where the team won a silver medal. At
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on 2 and 3 March 2024 she competed in her fiftieth international sevens tournament. At the time only five other women had reached this milestone, among them being
Charlotte Caslick Charlotte Emily Caslick (born 9 March 1995) is an Australian professional representative and Olympic level rugby union player. She represents Australia in rugby sevens and in touch football. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in ...
, Sharni Williams and
Portia Woodman Portia Woodman-Wickliffe (née Woodman; born 12 July 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and was a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team and New Zealand women ...
. She competed for
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at the
2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...
.


Awards

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Ordre national du Mérite The (; ) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's establishment was twofold: to replace the large number of ...
(September 8, 2021 decree)


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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pelle, Chloe 1989 births Living people French rugby union players France international women's rugby sevens players French rugby sevens players France women's international rugby union players French female rugby union players Olympic rugby sevens players for France Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in rugby sevens Rugby sevens players at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century French sportswomen Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University alumni