Laura Delgado Dueñas

Laura "Bimba" Delgado Dueñas (born 7 April 1990) is a former Spanish rugby union player. She played as a Prop for the Spanish women's team internationally.

Rugby career Born on in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, she grew up in a family of athletes who immediately pushed her towards the sport. She practiced shot put until she was 18, when she was injured in a motorcycle accident. It was then that she discovered rugby on the advice of a friend, with the Cádiz club. She gave up athletics to the great displeasure of her parents and her coach. In addition, the Cádiz club only played 10-a-side rugby, so she had to go to Madrid to play fifteens. The following season, she signed with Exeter Chiefs where she stayed for two seasons and won the 2022 Allianz Cup.

In 2022, Spain having not qualified for the delayed Rugby World Cup, she decided to play in New Zealand; she sent a sports CV to the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union who agreed to host her while warning her that the Farah Palmer Cup players are not paid, and that she has no guarantee of having a place in the squad. Hawke's Bay won the Championship (the bottom division of the FPC) that year. She is the first European player to participate in a haka in the Farah Palmer Cup.

Immediately after spending a season in New Zealand, she joined Gloucester-Hartpury, where she won the 2022–23 Premier 15s season, facing her former club Exeter Chiefs in the final. On 11 September, she announced her retirement from the Spanish national team.