Silvia Turani

Silvia Turani ( born 6 July 1995) is an Italian rugby union player. She plays as prop for Exeter Chiefs, and forthe Italy women's national rugby union team.

Silvia Turani came to rugby relatively late: she discovered it, in fact, as a student in Cordoba, Spain, where she was an exchange student from the University of Parma as part of the Erasmus Programme.

In 2016, she joined Colorno, the closest club to her university headquarters. She played in the 2016-17 championship.  She made her debut in the senior national team in Biella against France, taking over for Melissa Bettoni in the second half.

In November 2019, she was the first Italian called up to the Barbarian F.C. on the occasion of a match at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff against Wales.

in the 2020–21 season, she joined the Grenoble Amazones, with her university attendance at the Grenoble School of management. She was called up to the 2021 Rugby World Cup. She competed at the 2023 Women's Six Nations Championship.

She signed a contract with the English club Exeter, as of the 2022–23 season.