Willie Wepener
Appearance
Full name | Frederik Willem Wepener | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 2 April 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Newcastle, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 108 kg (17 st 0 lb; 238 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Helpmekaar Kollege | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frederik Willem Wepener (born 2 April 1981) is a South African rugby union footballer. He plays as a hooker for the Template:Rut Lions in Super Rugby and the Template:Rut Golden Lions in the Currie Cup. Wepener has previously represented Clermont Auvergne, Griquas, the Leopards and the Template:Rut Blue Bulls.
In August 2013, he rejoined the Template:Rut Golden Lions for the third time,[1] signing a two-year contract with the Johannesburg-based team.[2]
External links
- "SA Rugby Player Profile – Willie Wepener". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- Willie Wepener at itsrugby.co.uk
- Bulls profile
References
- ^ "Wepener moves to the Lions". Rugby365. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ "Wepener word weer 'n Leeu". Media24 (in Afrikaans). Beeld. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
Categories:
- Living people
- 1981 births
- South African rugby union players
- Rugby union hookers
- Bulls (rugby union) players
- Blue Bulls players
- Lions (Super Rugby) players
- Golden Lions players
- Griquas rugby union players
- ASM Clermont Auvergne players
- Leopards (rugby team) players
- People from Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
- White South African people
- Afrikaner people
- South African expatriate rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- South African expatriate sportspeople in France
- South African rugby union biography stubs