Laura Gurioli

Laura Gurioli (born 2 February 1995) is an Italian rugby union player. She competed for in the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Early career Gurioli was born in Bologna but grew up in Borgo Tossignano, in Emilia-Romagna. She discovered rugby through some Imola coaches who visited her school to recruit youngsters for their junior men's team, arousing the interest of some female students, including Gurioli herself, who joined their women's sevens team a few years later.

Club career After a period in Imola, she moved to Fenici, the women's team of Bologna in 2016, and made her debut in the Serie A Elite competition. In 2018 she moved to Valsugana and was also involved with the national sevens team that participated in the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples due to her being a student in Bologna.

After winning the championship in 2019, she was forced to be inactive for two seasons due to the suspension imposed on Italian women's club rugby due to the health emergency following the COVID-19 pandemic. Once women's club rugby resumed, she reached four consecutive championship finals with Villorba, winning two in 2024 and 2025. She was named in the Italian squad for the Women's Rugby World Cup in England.