Claude Portolan

{{Short description|French rugby union player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|12|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = {{nowrap|Auterive, Haute-Garonne, France}}

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| height = 6 ft 0 in

| weight = 246 lb

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| position = Prop

| repyears1 = 1986–89

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Claude Portolan (born 16 December 1960) is a French former international rugby union player.{{cite news |title=Portolan, Les Larmes D'Un Certain Rugby |url=https://www.humanite.fr/-/-/portolan-les-larmes-dun-certain-rugby |work=L'Humanité |date=30 December 1996 |language=fr-FR}}

A product of hometown club SA Auterive, Portolan was a prop and spent all but one season of his senior career with Stade Toulousain, playing 358 games. He featured in six Brennus Shield titles and was a member of the side that won the 1995–96 Heineken Cup. His brother, Gérard, was a teammate at Stade Toulousain.{{cite news |last1=Lopez |first1=Robin |title=[Que sont-ils devenus ?] Claude Portolan : « Le Stade Toulousain, c'est ma deuxième famille » |url=https://www.lejournaltoulousain.fr/portrait/claude-portolan-stade-toulousain-deuxieme-famille-204932/ |work=Le Journal Toulousain |date=27 April 2023 |language=fr-FR}}

Portolan gained three France caps during his career, debuting against the Wallabies in Sydney on their 1986 tour of Australia, before returning for two matches in the 1989 Five Nations.{{cite news |title=Claude Portolan, ancien pilier du Stade Toulousain : «J'aurais aimé jouer aujourd'hui» |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/02/07/jaurais-aime-jouer-aujourdhui,8000193.php |work=La Dépêche |date=7 February 2019 |language=fr}}