{"id":509684,"date":"2026-04-02T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:33:08","slug":"six-nations-france-star-louis-bielle-biarrey-wins-2026-player-of-championship-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509684\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: France star Louis Bielle-Biarrey wins 2026 Player of Championship award"},"content":{"rendered":"

France winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey has won the Player of the Championship award after his starring role in the 2026 Men’s Six Nations.<\/p>\n

It is the second year running the 22-year-old has received the best player accolade.<\/p>\n

He shone in his country’s title win – including in the decisive final game against England,<\/a> where he ran in four tries to help seal back-to-back titles for the French.<\/p>\n

The Bordeaux Begles man secured 44% of fan votes to claim this year’s award, with a record 151,525 supporters having their say.<\/p>\n

Italy centre Tommaso Menoncello, Ireland centre Stuart McCloskey and Scotland wing Kyle Steyn were also on the shortlist.<\/p>\n

Bielle-Biarrey set a record for the number of tries scored in a single Six Nations last season, with eight – and he went one better in this year’s campaign, crossing the line nine times.<\/p>\n

He is already fifth in the rankings of all-time leading try-scorers in the championship.<\/p>\n

“I’m just really happy, honestly. It’s yet another reward for the team’s hard work throughout the tournament,” Bielle-Biarrey said.<\/p>\n

“We were able to defend our title. Winning the tournament two years in a row is no small feat. We’re very happy to have done it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey has won the Player of the Championship award after his starring role in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-509684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}