Laurent Labit rugby player
Laurent Labit rugby player

Laurent Labit

8th May 1973 1.81m/kg Coach

Labit started his playing career at Rugby Club Revelois before joining Castres Olympique where he won the 1992–93 French Rugby Union Championship at the Parc des Princes against Grenoble.

He also spent some time at US Colomiers , AS Béziers , Union Bordeaux-Bègles and UA Gaillac where he made an 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 after which both Labit and Travers were recruited by Racing 92 for the 2013 - 2014 Top 14 season.

In April 2019, France announced that Labit will join their set up at the end of the season alongside incoming head coach Fabien Galthie.

(LS April 30, 2019)

Career

France France
Coach
2019 - present
logo_asbh_quadri Beziers
Fullback
1996 - 1999
ub Union Bordeaux Begles
Fullback
1999 - 2002
UAG Rugby Gaillac logo UAG Rugby Gaillac
Fullback
2002 - 2003
colomiersrugby_web Colomiers
Fullback
2003 - 2005
Untitled (5) Montauban
Coach
2004 - 2009
CastresOlympique Castres Olympique
Coach
1987 - 2013
logo_racing2 Racing 92
Coach
2023 - 2019