Ruan Botha
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| Born | 10 January 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 2.05 m (6 ft 8+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 124 kg (19 st 7 lb; 273 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Jeugland Hoërskool | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ruan Botha (born 10 January 1992) is a South African rugby union player. He plays as a lock for Kubota Spears in the Japanese Top League. He made his provincial debut on 31 March 2012 as the Golden Lions thrashed the Griffons 71–25 in Johannesburg. Botha started the match before being replaced in the 62nd minute by Hendrik Roodt.[2]
His first call-up to the Lions Super Rugby team came ahead of the side's Australian tour during the 2012 Super Rugby season. He made the starting fifteen for the first time in the match against the Chiefs in Pukekohe on 5 May 2012.[3]
Botha was named in the South Africa Under 20 team that won the 2012 IRB Junior World Championship.[4]
He joined Western Province for the 2013 season.[5]
In May 2019, following three years with Sharks he signed for English Premiership Rugby side London Irish on an initial 6 month contract.[6] He was due to return to Irish following the 2019–20 Top League season in Japan which he would spend with Kubota Spears. However, in July 2020 London Irish confirmed he would not be returning.[7]
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External links
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- itsrugby.co.uk profile
- IRB profile
- Living people
- 1992 births
- South African rugby union players
- Lions (United Rugby Championship) players
- Stormers players
- Afrikaner people
- Rugby union locks
- People from Brakpan
- South Africa Under-20 international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Gauteng
- Sharks (rugby union) players
- Kubota Spears players
- London Irish players
- South African expatriate rugby union players in England
- South African expatriate rugby union players in Japan
- 21st-century South African sportsmen
- South African rugby union biography, 1990s birth stubs