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{{Short description|Uruguay international rugby union player & coach}}
{{Infobox rugby biography
| name           = Pablo Adrián Lemoine
| image          = File:2015 Rugby World Cup - Repechage qualifier - Uruguay vs Russia - Pablo Lemoine.jpg
| caption        = Pablo Lemoine during Uruguay's [[2015 Rugby World Cup]] qualifier with [[Russia national rugby union team|Russia]]
| birth_name     = Pablo Adrian Lemoine
| nickname       =
| birth_place    = [[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]]
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|1975|03|01|df=yes}}
| death_date     = 
| death_place    = 
| height         = {{height|ft=6|in=1}}
| weight         = {{convert|276|lbs|kg|abbr=on}}
| ru_position    = [[Prop (rugby union)|Prop]]
| amatyears1     = 1995–1998
| amatyears2     = 2011–2012
| amatteam1      = [[Montevideo Cricket Club]]
| amatteam2      = [[Montevideo Cricket Club]]
| ru_amupdate    = 
| repteam1       = Uruguay U–17
| repteam2       = Uruguay U–19
| repteam3       = Uruguay U–20
| repteam4       = [[Uruguay national rugby union team|Uruguay]]
| repyears1      = 1991
| repyears2      = 1992–94
| repyears3      = 1995–96
| repyears4      = 1996–2010
| repcaps1       = 
| repcaps2       = 
| repcaps3       = 
| repcaps4       = 48
| reppoints1     = 
| reppoints2     = 
| reppoints3     = 
| reppoints4     = 20
| ru_ntupdate    = 
| years1         = 1998–2000
| years2         = 2000–2006
| years3         = 2006–2008
| years4         = 2009–2010
| clubs1         = [[Bristol Shoguns]]
| clubs2         = [[Stade Français]]
| clubs3         = [[US Montauban|Montauban]]
| clubs4         = [[Avenir Valencien|Valence d'Agen]]
| apps1          = ?
| apps2          = 91
| apps3          = 29
| apps4          = 15
| points1        = ?
| points2        = 20
| points3        = 0
| points4        = 5
| coachteams1    = [[Montevideo Cricket Club|Montevideo Cricket Club U–19]]
| coachteams2    = [[Uruguay national rugby union team|Uruguay]]
| coachteams3    = [[Germany national rugby union team|Germany]]
| coachteams4    = [[Chile national rugby union team|Chile]]
| coachyears1    = 2012
| coachyears2    = 2012–2015
| coachyears3    = 2018
| coachyears4    = 2018–
| ru_coachupdate = 2 September 2018 
}}

'''Pablo Adrian Lemoine''' (born 1 March 1975 in [[Montevideo]]) is a former Uruguayan [[rugby union]] player and former head coach of the [[Uruguay national rugby union team|Uruguayan national rugby team]] and [[Germany national rugby union team|German national team]]. He is currently the head coach of the [[Chile national rugby union team|Chile national team]].

==Playing career==

===Club career===
Lemoine first started playing rugby at the age of 11, and two years later he trained with the [[Montevideo Cricket Club]], working his way through the age grade teams - along the way he won the junior National Championship in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1994.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090327073825/http://www.montevideocricketclub.com/rugby/entrevista.html Montevideo Cricket Club Interview with Pablo Lemoine]</ref> He made his debut with the senior side in 1995, during the [[Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby]], against [[Club Champagnat (Uruguay)|Club Champagnat]]. He was noticed in his own country, then moved to [[Bristol Shoguns]] ahead of the [[1998–1999 Allied Dunbar Premiership Two]] season, where he became the first ever Uruguayan professional rugby player. He helped the team gain promotion to the highest level in English domestic rugby for the [[1999–2000 English Premiership (rugby union)|1999–2000 English Premiership]], where Bristol finished sixth in the table. They additionally finished top of their pool in the [[1999–2000 European Challenge Cup|European Challenge Cup]], making it to the semi-final only to lose to [[Section Paloise|Pau]] 51–27.<ref>[http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/fans/history/1999-2000/ Bristol rugby 1999-2000]</ref>

He moved to [[Stade Français]] for the [[2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship]], where his side progressed to the quarter-finals in his debut season.<ref>[http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/story/30913.html Lemoine to leave Bristol for France]</ref> His side also made it to the [[2001 Heineken Cup Final]], though they lost to [[Leicester Tigers]] 34–30.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.epcrugby.com/matchcentre/16698.php |title=The Sixth Heineken Cup Final |access-date=2015-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828224330/http://www.epcrugby.com/matchcentre/16698.php |archive-date=2016-08-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His side struggled in the 2001–02, only making it as far as the second round in the Top 16, and getting knocked out in the Quarter-finals during the [[2001–02 Heineken Cup]]. However, Stade Français managed to achieve the Top 16 title in 2003. They retained their title in 2004, and came second in 2005. They also reached the [[2005 Heineken Cup Final]], only to lose to [[Stade Toulousain|Toulouse]] 18–12 in Extra time. Haven been injured midway through the 2005–06 season, Lemoine was released from his contract and moved to [[US Montauban|Montauban]]. Haven finished seventh in consecutive seasons with Montauban, Pablo moved to [[Avenir Valencien]] in the [[Fédérale 1]], before returning home to Uruguay in 2010, playing with [[Montevideo Cricket Club]], before retiring in 2012.

===International career===
Haven played for Uruguay at age grade level between 1991 and 1996, of which he captained the U–19's side in the [[Under 19 Rugby World Championship]] in 1993 and 1994, Lemoine made his debut for the senior [[Uruguay national rugby union team|Uruguayan]] side on 2 September 1995 against [[Spain national rugby union team|Spain]], winning 47–10.<ref>[http://en.espn.co.uk/statsguru/rugby/match/22982.html Uruguay 47 Spain 10]</ref> He went on to play a further 13 times, before scoring his first international test try, against [[Portugal national rugby union team|Portugal]]. He was selected for the [[1999 Rugby World Cup]], where he started in all three games for the Teros. He featured again in a Rugby World Cup, where again he played in all games that Uruguay played in during the [[2003 Rugby World Cup|2003 tournament]]. Lemoine was the first Uruguayan to score a try in a Rugby World Cup match, scoring in the 60–13 defeat to [[Samoa national rugby union team|Samoa]] on 15 October 2003. His last game was on 27 November 2010 against [[Romania national rugby union team|Romania]] in the [[2011 Rugby World Cup Final Place Play-off|2011 RWC final place play-off]] match, where they failed to qualify for the [[2011 Rugby World Cup]]. He has 48 caps, with 4 tries scored, 20 points on aggregate.

=== International Tries ===
<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pablo Adrian Lemoine|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/player/12650.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=ESPN scrum}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!Try
!Opposing team
!Location
!Venue
!Competition
!Date
!Result
!Score
|-
|1
| rowspan="2" |{{ru|POR}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Carrasco Polo Club]]
| rowspan="2" |[[1999 Rugby World Cup – repechage qualification]]
| rowspan="2" |13 March 1999
| rowspan="2" |Win
| rowspan="2" |'''46''' – 9
|-
|2
|-
|3
|{{ru|SAM}}
|[[Perth]], [[Australia]]
|[[Subiaco Oval]]
|[[2003 Rugby World Cup]]
|15 October 2003
|Loss
|60 – '''13'''
|-
|4
|{{ru|ENG}}
|[[Brisbane]], [[Australia]]
|[[Suncorp Stadium]]
|[[2003 Rugby World Cup]]
|2 November 2003
|Loss
|111 – '''13'''
|}

===Honours===
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'''[[Bristol Shoguns]]'''
*'''[[RFU Championship|Allied Dunbar Premiership Two]]'''
**Winners: [[1998–1999 Allied Dunbar Premiership Two|1999]]

'''[[Stade Français]]'''
*'''[[Top 14|French Rugby Championship/Top 16]]'''
**Winners: [[2002–03 Top 16 season|2003]], [[2003–04 Top 16 season|2004]]
**Runners-up: [[2004–05 Top 16 season|2005]]
*'''[[Heineken Cup]]'''
**Runners-up: [[2000–01 Heineken Cup|2001]], [[2004–05 Heineken Cup|2005]]
*'''[[Coupe de France (rugby)|Coupe de France]]'''
**Winners: 1999
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'''[[Avenir Valencien]]'''
*'''Challenge of l'Espérance'''
**Winners: 2010

'''[[Uruguay national rugby union team|Uruguay]]'''
*'''[[South American Rugby Championship]]'''
**Runners-up: [[1997 South American Rugby Championship|1997]], [[1998 South American Rugby Championship|1998]], [[2002 South American Rugby Championship "A"|2002]]
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==Coaching career==
===Uruguay===
After retiring from rugby in early 2012, Lemoine took up coaching, where he began coaching the Montevideo Cricket Club U–19's side. Though this was a short stint, as he was later named head coach of the Uruguayan national side on a 4-year contract, with the aim of qualifying for the [[2015 Rugby World Cup]]. He first match in charge came against [[Argentina national rugby union team|Argentina]] during the [[2012 South American Rugby Championship "A"]], where Argentina won 40–5. Uruguay went on to beat [[Chile national rugby union team|Chile]] and [[Brazil national rugby union team|Brazil]] to claim second place. In June 2012, Uruguay competed in the [[2012 IRB Nations Cup]], where Uruguay finished fourth behind hosts Romania, [[Argentina Jaguars]] and Italy A. The [[2013 South American Rugby Championship "A"]] started Uruguay's qualification progress for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, which kept alive haven finished second to advance to the [[2015 Rugby World Cup – Americas qualification|NACRA-CONSUR playoff final]], against the [[United States national rugby union team|United States]]. The opening leg of the play-offs saw Uruguay draw 27–27 in [[Montevideo]], but lost 32–13 in the return fixture in [[Kennesaw, Georgia]], which sent Lemoine's men to the [[2015 Rugby World Cup – repechage qualification|repechage qualification]].

During the [[2014 South American Rugby Championship "A"]], Uruguay claimed their first Championship in 33 years, haven beaten [[Paraguay national rugby union team|Paraguay]] 34–10, Brazil 34–9 and Chile 55–13. On 2 August 2014, Uruguay beat [[Hong Kong national rugby union team|Hong Kong]] 28–3, to set up a home and away series against [[Russia national rugby union team|Russia]] to claim the final sport in [[2015 Rugby World Cup Pool A|Pool A]]. Haven lost 22–21 in [[Krasnoyarsk]], Uruguay needed to beat Russia by 2 points or more to qualify, and on 11 October, Uruguay beat Russia 36–27 to qualify for the World Cup. However, the matches leading up to the World Cup, saw Uruguay claim just three wins from 13 games, though one of those wins was a first ever victory over Argentina, winning 30–26 - though it was an Argentina XV side that was fielded. They lost to back to back matches to Japan in [[2015 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches|August 2015]], the first test being a first ever loss to the Japanese, 30–8. Uruguay failed to claim a win during the [[2015 Rugby World Cup]], losing all their matches in their group; 54–9 to Wales, 65–3 to Australia, 47–15 to Fiji and 60–3 to England. Though, Uruguay did pick up their first World Cup try in 12 years, when [[Carlos Arboleya]] scored a try against Fiji on 6 October 2015.

On 1 December 2015, it was announced that Lemoine had stepped down as Uruguayan head coach, and became the new Director of High Performance for the [[Uruguayan Rugby Union|URU]], whilst leading the High Performance Center at [[Estadio Charrúa]].<ref>[http://www.rugbytime.com/noticias/tras-la-rwc-2015-los-teros-buscaran-incrementar-su-nivel/ Los Teros buscarán incrementar su nivel y sumar experiencia]</ref><ref>[http://www.americasrugbynews.com/2015/12/24/5775/ Esteban Meneses is new Uruguay Head Coach]</ref> Lemoine left his role with the URU in early 2018 following his appointment as the [[Germany national rugby union team|German national team]] head coach.

===Germany===
On 8 January 2018, Pablo Lemoine was announced as the new head coach of [[Germany national rugby union team|Germany]] after [[Kobus Potgieter]] stood down at the end of 2017.<ref>[http://www.totalrugby.de/content/view/9255/37/ Pablo Lemoine wird neuer DRVXV-Nationaltrainer]</ref> [[Vuyo Zangqa]] went back to coaching the German VIIs team, after he acted as caretaker coach in Germany's defeat to [[Chile national rugby union team|Chile]] on 25 November 2017. Lemoine's high profile recruitment by the [[German Rugby Federation]] was part of the apex of a larger controversy, the "Rugbystreit" ([[The "Rugbystreit" in German Rugby]].)

Lemoine led Germany into the [[2018 Rugby Europe Championship]], needing at least three victories to put them within a chance of World Cup qualification. However, with 5 defeats, including the four defeats that goes towards qualification, Germany found themselves at the bottom of the 2018 Rugby Europe Championship table and bottom of the aggregate 2017/2018 Championship table that acted as World Cup qualification. However, following an investigation into the European teams using ineligible players, [[Belgium national rugby union team|Belgium]], [[Romania national rugby union team|Romania]] and [[Spain national rugby union team|Spain]] were deducted points which saw Germany by default finish second and advance to the final round of the European qualification stage. In that round, Germany narrowly defeated [[Portugal national rugby union team|Portugal]] 16–13, to advance to the [[2019 Rugby World Cup – play-off qualifications|Europe/Oceania play-off series]] against [[Samoa national rugby union team|Samoa]]. In the first leg, Samoa convincingly beat Germany 66–15 in [[Apia]]. The return leg, saw Samoa complete a series win with a 42–28 win in [[Heidelberg]], despite the fact that Germany led 28–21 leading into the final 10 minutes, but conceded three tries in the closing minutes of the game.

In August 2018, it was announced that the [[German Rugby Federation]] were searching for a new coach ahead of the [[2019 Rugby World Cup – play-off qualifications|2019 Rugby World Cup Repechage]], after it emerged Lemoine had returned to South America.<ref>[https://www.rugbypass.com/news/exclusive-former-bath-toulon-coach-mike-ford-verge-shock-international-return/ Former Bath and Toulon coach Mike Ford on verge of shock international return]</ref>

===Chile===
On 31 August 2018, Lemoine was announced as the head coach of [[Chile national rugby union team|Chile]].<ref>[http://www.americasrugbynews.com/2018/08/31/chile-name-pablo-lemoine-as-new-head-coach/ Chile Name Pablo Lemoine as New Head Coach]</ref> His first set of match game not to long after, when Chile played a [[Sudamérica XV|South American XV]] losing 38–21 and then an historic first match against the [[Māori All Blacks]] losing 73–0.

His first win in charge of Chile came midway through 2019 - after nine losses - beating [[Paraguay national rugby union team|Paraguay]] 53–10 during the [[2019 South American Six Nations]], which ended up being the only win in 2019.

With limited games in 2020 due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Pablo Lemoine's Chile returned to the international arena in 2021 as part of the [[2023 Rugby World Cup – Americas qualification|2023 Rugby World Cup qualifiers]]. After finishing second in the opening stage behind Uruguay in July 2021, Chile later defeated [[Canada national rugby union team|Canada]] and then the [[United States national rugby union team|United States]] to earn an historic qualification for the [[2023 Rugby World Cup]] as Americas 2.<ref>[https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/2023/news/733127/rugby-world-cup-2023-americas-2-play-off-recap Chile secure Rugby World Cup debut with dramatic defeat of the USA]</ref>

As part of the development for Chile ahead of the World Cup, an historic European tour in [[2022 end-of-year rugby union internationals|November 2023]] was secured, with matches against  [[Romania national rugby union team|Romania]] and [[Tonga national rugby union team|Tonga]]; which saw Chile lose both tests.<ref>[https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2022/11/05/romania-hold-on-to-beat-resilient-chile/ Romania hold on to beat Resilient Chile]</ref><ref>[https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2022/11/12/tonga-outmuscle-chile-in-bucharest/ Tonga outmuscle Chile in Bucharest]</ref>

The World Cup saw Chile lose all their games, losing to [[Japan national rugby union team|Japan]] (42–12), [[Samoa national rugby union team|Samoa]] (43–10), [[England national rugby union team|England]] (71–0) and [[Argentina national rugby union team|Argentina]] (59–5).

In 2024, Chile continued to receive support from [[World Rugby]] to aid in development ahead of an expanded [[2027 Rugby World Cup]], with a historic three-test incoming tour in [[2024 mid-year rugby union tests|July]], with victories over [[Hong Kong national rugby union team|Hong Kong]] and [[Belgium national rugby union team|Belgium]] and a loss to [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] in an historic first encounter.

Chile later went onto earn an historic first win over [[Argentina XV national rugby union team|Argentina XV]],<ref>[https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2024/09/14/chile-write-history-against-argentina-xv/ Chile Write History against Argentina XV]</ref> and win all of their matches in the opening stage of the [[2027 Men's Rugby World Cup – South America qualification|2027 Rugby World Cup qualification process]].

===Honours===
'''Uruguay'''
*'''[[South American Rugby Championship]]'''
**Winners: [[2014 South American Rugby Championship "A"|2014]]
**Runners-up: [[2012 South American Rugby Championship "A"|2012]], [[2013 South American Rugby Championship "A"|2013]], [[2015 South American Rugby Championship "A"|2015]]
*'''CONSUR Cup'''
**Runners-up: [[2014 CONSUR Cup|2014]], [[2015 CONSUR Cup|2015]]
*'''[[World Rugby Nations Cup]]'''
**Third: [[2014 IRB Nations Cup|2014]]

==References==
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==External links==
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 before={{flagicon|URU}} [[Sebastián Piñeyrúa]]|
 title=[[Uruguay national rugby union team|Uruguay National Rugby Union Coach]]|
 years=2012–2015|
 after={{flagicon|ARG}} [[Esteban Meneses]]}}
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 before={{flagicon|RSA}} [[Vuyo Zangqa]]<br />''(Caretaker)''|
 title=[[Germany national rugby union team|Germany National Rugby Union Coach]]|
 years=2018|
 after={{flagicon|ENG}} [[Mike Ford (rugby)|Mike Ford]]}}
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 before={{flagicon|NZL}} [[Mark Cross (rugby union)|Mark Cross]]|
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