René Biénès
| Date of birth | 2 August 1923 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Toulouse, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | September 2009 (aged 86) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bordeaux, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 197 lb (89 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
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René Biénès (2 August 1923 – September 2009) was a French international rugby union player.
A native of Toulouse, Biénès was an international level javelin thrower and didn't pick up rugby until after World War II, during which he was decorated with both the Médaille militaire and Croix de Guerre. He had been involved with the French resistance and later served with the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment after Toulouse was liberated.[1][2]
Biénès started out with SC Graulhet, before joining top division team US Cognac in 1947. His international career consisted of 29 caps for France between 1950 and 1956. He was utilised mainly as a prop and captained France on their 1954 tour of South America, where he was the team's top try scorer across all fixtures.[2][3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Finales Rugby - Bienes René Louis". finalesrugby.fr.
- ^ a b "Cognac: les Biénès dans le sillon du roi René". Charente libre (in French). 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Le Triomphe: du rugby français en Argentine". Le Monde (in French). 28 September 1954.
External links
[edit]- René Biénès at ESPNscrum
- René Biénès at Fédération Française de Rugby
- 1923 births
- 2009 deaths
- French rugby union players
- France international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Toulouse
- Rugby union props
- US Cognac players
- Sporting Club Graulhetois players
- Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
- French Resistance members
- French Army personnel of World War II