Stephan Dippenaar
| Born | Stephanus Christiaan Dippenaar 3 January 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb; 14 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Paul Roos Gymnasium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephanus Christiaan Dippenaar (born 3 January 1988) is a South African rugby union footballer. He currently represents the South Africa national sevens team in the IRB Sevens World Series.[1] Between 2008 and 2011 he played for the Bulls in Super Rugby and the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup.
Dippenaar represented South Africa's under-19 team at the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship in Ireland. In 2008, he played for South Africa's under-20 team at the Junior World Championship in Wales.[2] He made his international sevens debut for the South African sevens team in 2012 at the Wellington Sevens.[3][4]
In 2013, he was included in the squad for the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[5] Dippenaar was injured at the 2015 Hong Kong Sevens and was replaced by Ruhan Nel.[6][7] He had just recovered from an injury he sustained at the Gold Coast Sevens at the beginning of the series.[8]
On 17 October 2017, Dippenaar announced his retirement from rugby on Twitter.
References
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External links
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Bulls (rugby union) players
- Rugby union centres
- Rugby union players from Moorreesburg
- South Africa international rugby sevens players
- South Africa Under-20 international rugby union players
- South African rugby union players
- White South African people
- World Games gold medalists for South Africa
- World Games medalists in rugby sevens
- Alumni of Paul Roos Gymnasium
- Medalists at the 2013 World Games
- 21st-century South African sportsmen
- South African rugby union biography, 1980s birth stubs