Rugby player
| Date of birth | (1964-03-31)31 March 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Sort-en-Chalosse, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 2 July 1990(1990-07-02) (aged 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Nouméa, New Caledonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 236 lb (107 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dominique Bouet (31 March 1964 — 2 July 1990) was a French international rugby union player.
Biography
A native of Landes, Bouet started playing rugby as a youth at AS Monfort and in 1984 transferred to US Dax, where he would spent his career. He made his senior debut for US Dax in the 1986–87 season.
Bouet won a France call up for the 1989 tour of New Zealand and featured in both Tests against the All Blacks. He was capped a further two times that year, in home internationals against the British Lions and Wallabies. In 1990, Bouet returned to the southern hemisphere for a tour of Australia and gained his fifth cap in the 3rd Test in Sydney.
On the way home from Australia, the French team stopped over in Nouméa for several days of rest. After a night of celebration, Bouet suffered cardiac arrest in his hotel room and was found dead on the floor by his teammates.
See also
References
- "Sa Derniere Mi-Temps". L'Humanité (in French). 3 July 1990.
- "Bouet, Capendéguy, Bergès-Cau, ne les oublions pas". Rugbyrama (in French). 26 October 2015.
- "Bouet found dead in hotel". The Canberra Times. 3 July 1990. p. 22 – via National Library of Australia.
- "French Rugby Player Found Dead". Los Angeles Times. 2 July 1990.
- "Dominique Bouet pilier du XV de France meurt d'un arrêt cardiaque". Le Monde (in French). 3 July 1990.
External links
- Dominique Bouet at ESPNscrum