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Chloé Pelle

Date of birth	(1989-11-14) 14 November 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Paris
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop, center, wing Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) RC Chilly-Mazarin (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points)  France National sevens team Years Team Comps  France
Medal record Women's rugby sevens Representing  France Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team competition Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 Cape Town Team competition

Chloé Pelle (born 14 November 1989 in Paris) is a French international rugby union and rugby sevens player who has played for RC Chilly-Mazarin as a wing since 2020 and for the France women's national rugby union team since 2011.

Biography

Pelle was born in Paris. 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 cybersecurity 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 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, where the team won a silver medal.

At Los Angeles 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, Sharni Williams and Portia Woodman.

She competed for France at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Awards

• Ordre national du Mérite (September 8, 2021 decree)

References

1. "FFR - Chloe Pelle". Fédération Française de Rugby (in French). Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
2. ^ "Rugby : quatre Villeneuvoises en coupe du monde". France 3 Hauts-de-France (in French). 8 August 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
3. "MEDIA GUIDE FRANCE 7 FEMININ HSBC NEW ZEALAND SEVENS 2019-2020" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2020.
4. ^ "Chloé Pelle : tête chercheuse des Bleues et analyste en cybersécurité". Olympics.com. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
5. "Chloé Pelle : un cerveau supersonique". midi-olympique.fr (in French). Retrieved 12 December 2021.
6. world.rugby. "Chloé Pelle - Player Stats | Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022". www.rwcsevens.com. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
7. "Country Summary: France - Rugby World Cup Sevens South Africa 2022". www.rwcsevens.com. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
8. "Fiji and Australia crowned Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 champions in Cape Town". www.rwcsevens.com. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
9. "Australian women, Fiji men win Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town". ca.sports.yahoo.com. 12 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
10. "Chloe PELLE". Olympics.com. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
11. "Rugby Sevens Women Gold Medal Match". Tokyo 2020 Olympics | NHK. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
12. "Les Bleues impuissantes en finale face à la Nouvelle-Zélande aux JO de Tokyo". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 12 December 2021.
13. ^ Morton, Finn (3 March 2024). "Portia Woodman-Wickliffe among three history-making women at SVNS LAX". Rugby Pass. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
14. "Dupont's Olympic selection confirmed as French rugby federation announces squads for Paris Games". AP News. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
15. "France - Rugby Sevens Olympic Games Paris 2024". www.world.rugby. 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
16. "Décret du 8 septembre 2021 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national du Mérite". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

External links

• Chloé Pelle at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
• Chloé Pelle at Olympedia (archive)
• Chloé Pelle at Olympics.com
• Chloé Pelle at Équipe de France (in French)

• 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