Date of birth | 21 June 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laure Bourdon Sansus (née Sansus, born 21 June 1994) is a former French rugby union player.[1][2][3][4]
Originally from Toutens, she attended the rugby school of Labastide-Beauvoir. She then joined the Saint-Orens rugby féminin before being recruited l'Avenir Fonsorbais rugby féminin (which later became Stade toulousain).[5]
On 6 February 2016, in Bourg-en-Bresse, she made her international debut for France in a 39-0 victory over Italy.[6][7]
Sansus paused her career during the 2017-18 season, before returning to play with Stade toulousain for the 2018-19 season. That season, she made her first appearance in the French women's rugby championship, as Stade toulousain lost 22-13 to Stade Maurice-Trélut. She was nominated for the 2021 World Rugby Player of the Year.[8]
She was named the Best Player of the 2022 women's Six Nations, leading the competition in tries.[9][10][11] On 15 May 2022, she announced she would be retiring at the end of the year.[12] She was named in France's team to the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.[13][14]
Sansus suffered a serious knee injury in France's pool game against England. Following this, Sansus retired from rugby.[15]