Adam Beard
Birth name | Adam Beard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Swansea, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 205 cm (6 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 116 kg (18 st 4 lb; 256 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Neath Port Talbot College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adam Beard (born 7 January 1996) is a Welsh rugby union player currently playing for United Rugby Championship side Ospreys as a Lock. A Wales international, Beard has also been selected to tour with the British and Irish Lions.
Club career[]
Beard made his debut for the Ospreys in 2012 having previously played for their academy team, Aberavon RFC and Birchgrove RFC.
International[]
Wales[]
In May 2017 Beard was named in the Wales senior squad for the tests against Tonga and Samoa in June 2017[1] He made his debut for Wales against Samoa in Apia on the 2017 summer tour, coming on as a replacement, and then made his first start in the home victory over Georgia five months later. His 6 Nations debut came in the win over France in Paris in 2019 – his ninth straight win in a Wales shirt. He went on to start in four of the Grand Slam matches in the 2019 championships, and come on as a replacement in the other, as he extended his unbeaten run in a Welsh shirt to 11 matches up to 1 August, 2019.
British and Irish Lions[]
Beard was called into the British & Irish Lions squad for the 2021 tour to South Africa. This followed the temporary withdrawal of tour captain Alun Wyn Jones following a shoulder injury.[2] On July 7th, Beard made his Lions debut in the Provincial game against the Sharks.[3] Beard would go on to make his Lions test debut in the third test against the Springboks.
Personal life[]
Beard is in a relationship with Chelsea Lewis, the Wales netball international. [4][5]
References[]
- ^ Wales squad June 2017
- ^ "Beard & Navidi called into Lions squad and Murray replaces Jones as Tour captain".
- ^ "Beard makes Lions debut | Ospreys".
- ^ "Wales lock Adam Beard's World Cup: A lucky escape, surgery and overeating". www.bbc.co.uk. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- ^ "Welsh netball international Chelsea Lewis has announced her pregnancy with rugby player boyfriend Adam Beard". www.newschain.uk. 9 January 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
External links[]
- Rugby union players from Swansea
- Welsh rugby union players
- Wales international rugby union players
- Ospreys (rugby union) players
- Living people
- 1996 births
- British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Wales