Kurt-Lee Arendse
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Full name | Kurt-Lee Arendse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 17 June 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (180 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Paulus Joubert Secondary School, Paarl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of the Western Cape | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Kurt-Lee Arendse (born 17 June 1996) is a South African professional rugby player for the South Africa national team, where his regular position is wing or fullback, and a rugby union player for the Bulls in the United Rugby Championship
Career
[edit]He attended Paulus Joubert Secondary School in Paarl, where he earned a selection into the Boland Cavaliers' sevens team that competed at the 2014 SARU Under-18 Sevens competition.[2] He progressed through the youth ranks in rugby union, playing in several national junior competitions — he played for Western Province U19 in the 2015 Under-19 Provincial Championship, for Boland U20 in the 2016 Under-20 Provincial Championship and for Western Province U21 in the 2017 Under-21 Provincial Championship.
He was named as the MVP at the 2018 Varsity Cup Sevens tournament,[3] and joined the South African Rugby Sevens Academy in December 2018.[3] After playing for UWC in the 2019 Varsity Cup, Arendse was named in the Blitzboks squad for the Vancouver Sevens,[4] and he made his debut in their 31–12 Cup semi-final victory over Fiji.[5] He was an unused replacement in the final,[6] which South Africa won, beating France 21–12.
He represented Monaco rugby sevens during Supersevens 2020. The team also featured many other South Africans and ended 7th in the tournament.
In 2020, with no seven tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he joined the Pretoria Bulls franchise where he immediately made an impact.[7]
Statistics
[edit]Test match record
[edit]- As of 10 August 2024
Opponent | P | W | D | L | Try | Pts | %Won |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 100 |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 100 |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 100 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 50 |
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 25 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 100 |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 100 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 100 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 100 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 19 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 85 | 73.68 |
International tries
[edit]- As of 10 August 2024[8]
Honours
[edit]- International
- Rugby World Cup champion 2023
- Sevens rugby tournament winner 2019 Canada Sevens, 2019 Singapore Sevens, 2019 Dubai Sevens, 2020 USA Sevens
- Super Rugby Unlocked winner 2020
- Currie Cup winner 2020–21
- United Rugby Championship runner-up 2021–22
- United Rugby Championship Player of the Month in South Africa for March 2022 [9]
- Named in the 2022–23 and 2023–24 United Rugby Championship Elite XV team
- Bulls accolades
- Vodacom Bulls Heineken Champions Cup Player of the Year: 2022–23
- Vodacom Fans player of the year - APP 2023
- Vodacom Players Player of the Year 2023
- Vodacom Player of the Year 2023
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Kurt-Lee Arendse player profile". rugbyworldcup.com. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ "WP U18 Sevens Champs". Rugby365. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Player Profiles : Kurt-Lee Arendse". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Davids and Arendse to join Blitzboks in Vancouver" (Press release). South African Rugby Union. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Match Centre: Vancouver, Cup Semi Finals, Match 39". World Rugby. 10 March 2019. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "Match Centre: Vancouver, Cup Final, Match 45". World Rugby. 10 March 2019. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ SA Rugbymag
- ^ "Kurt-Lee ARENDSE profile and stats". all.rugby. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Kurt-Lee Arendse voted SA URC Player of the Month after electrifying performances". IOL. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
External links
[edit]- Kurt-Lee Arendse at the World Rugby Men's Sevens Series
- Kurt-Lee Arendse at ItsRugby.co.uk
- Kurt-Lee Arendse at Olympedia
- Kurt-Lee Arendse at Springboks.rugby
- South African rugby union players
- Living people
- 1996 births
- Rugby union wings
- South Africa international rugby sevens players
- Summer World University Games medalists in rugby sevens
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Africa
- Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
- Bulls (rugby union) players
- Blue Bulls players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players for South Africa
- South Africa international rugby union players
- 2023 Rugby World Cup players
- South African rugby union biography stubs