Laurent Labit

Laurent Labit
Rugby union career

Date of birth	(1968-05-08) 8 May 1968
Place of birth	Revel, France
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1987–1996 2003–2005 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2003 2003-2004	Castres Olympique US Colomiers AS Béziers Union Bordeaux-Bègles UA Gaillac
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
	France A France U23
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
2004-2009 2009-2013 2013-	US Montauban Castres olympique Racing-Métro

Laurent Labit (born 8 May 1973) is a retired French rugby union footballer, and a coach at Top 14 club Racing-Métro

Early life

Labit was born in Revel, France. He began his playing career in his home town of Rugby Club Revélois before moving to Castres.^[1]

Career

He started his playing career at Rugby Club Revelois. Labit later joined Castres Olympique where he won the 1992–93 French Rugby Union Championship at the Parc des Princes against Grenoble by beating them 14-11 in the final, in a match decided by an irregular try accorded by the referee. A try by Olivier Brouzet is denied to FC Grenoble and the decisive try by Gary Whetton was awarded by the referee, Daniel Salles, when in fact the defender Hueber from Grenoble touched down the ball first in his try zone. This error gave the title to Castres. Salles admitted the error only 13 years later.^[2]

Labit also spent some time at US Colomiers , AS Béziers , Union Bordeaux-Bègles and UA Gaillac where he an made impact as a back line player. In his early years he represented France at a U23 level and later played for France A , but never managed to get selected for France national rugby union team

Labit's coaching career started at US Montauban in 2004, where he helped them get promoted into the Top 14 in the 2006 season together with Laurent Travers. At the end of the 2008-2009 season, Labit joined Olympic Castres with Laurent Travers and in the 2012 - 2013 season, both coaches lead the club to win the Top 14 Championship after which both Labit and Travers where recruited by Racing 92 for the 2013 - 2014 Top 14 season, Racing Metro managed to get the semi-finals before being eliminated from the tournament.^[3]

Playing career

1987-1996 : Castres Olympique
1996-1999 : US Colomiers
1999-2002 : AS Béziers
2002-2003 : Union Bordeaux-Bègles
2003-2004 : UA Gaillac

Coaching career

2004-2009 : US Montauban
2009-2013 : Castres olympique
2013- : Racing Métro 92

Personal life

He is married to Pascale Soual Labit and they have 3 children: Camille (1991) Quentin (1997) and Amber (2002).

Notes and references

↑ Racing Metro (5 June 2013). "Laurent LABIT". Racing Metro. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
↑ (Escot et Rivière 2009, p. 268)
↑ "Toulon v Racing Metro". Lequipe.

External links

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Racing 92 Official website

Top 14

2015–16 Teams	Agen Bordeaux Brive Castres Clermont Grenoble La Rochelle Montpellier Oyonnax Pau Racing Stade Français Toulon Toulouse

The origins	1892 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–00 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19

Between the wars	1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39

During the second world war	1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45

After the second world war	1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60

1960–80	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80

1980–95	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95

Professional era and Top 16	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05

Top 14	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Trophy	Bouclier de Brennus

European Rugby Champions Cup

Organised by European Professional Club Rugby
Formerly the Heineken Cup, organised by European Rugby Cup

2015–16 teams

Heineken Cup
(1995-2014)

Seasons	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

Pool Stages	1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

Finals	1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Champions Cup
(2014-present)

Seasons	2014–15 2015–16

Pool stages	2014–15 2015–16

Finals	2015 2016

Qualification play-off

Racing 92 squad

Forwards	Ben Arous Brugnaut Carizza Castrogiovanni Charteris Claassen Dubarry Ducalcon Filipo Khinchagishvili Kruger Lacombe Lauret Le Roux Masoe Nyanga Szarzewski Tameifuna Van der Merwe

Backs	Andreu Audrin Carter Chauveau Chavancy Dambielle Dulin Dumoulin Goosen Imhoff Laulala Machenaud Phillips Robinson Rokocoko Talès Thomas

Coach	Labit Travers O'Gara

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