Dan Lydiate

Dan Lydiate

Personal information
Full name	Daniel Lydiate
Date of birth	18 December 1987 (23)
Place of birth	Salford, England
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	113 kg (17 st 11 lb)
Club information
Position(s)	flanker
Current club	Newport Gwent Dragons
Youth clubs
Years	Club
	Ebbw Vale Pontypool
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
2006–	Newport Gwent Dragons	65 (5)
Representative teams**
2009–	Wales	20 (0)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only and correct as of 19:58, 20 Nov 2011 (UTC). ** Representative team caps and points correct as of 20:22, 03 Dec 2011 (UTC).

Dan Lydiate (born 18 December 1987, Salford) is a Wales international rugby union player. A flanker, Lydiate was raised in Llandrindod Wells and is a product of the Newport Gwent Dragons academy. He was an ever present member of the Wales Under 20 back row along with Lewis Evans and James Harris for their Six Nations campaign in 2006/7 and progressed to the Dragons senior side at the end of that season. Early in the 2007/08 season he suffered a serious neck injury in the Heineken Cup Group match away to Perpignan which ruled him out for the rest of the season.

On 25 October 2009 Lydiate was named in the Wales national squad for the November 2009 international series, making his debut as a second half replacement against Argentina on 21 November 2009. Following the withdrawal of captain Ryan Jones from the Wales squad to face Australia in the final Autumn International, Lydiate made his first test match start at flanker on 28 November 2009. He was named in the Wales squad for the 2010 Six Nations Championship, however did not play a single game.

In August 2011 he was named in the Wales squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

External links

• Newport Gwent Dragons profile
• Wales profile