Graeme Bachop
Birth name | Graeme Thomas Miro Bachop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 June 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Christchurch, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (12 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Hagley High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Stephen Bachop (brother) Nathan Mauger (nephew) Aaron Mauger (nephew) Connor Garden-Bachop (nephew) Jackson Garden-Bachop (nephew) Sue Garden-Bachop (sister-in-law) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Ange Bachop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Graeme Thomas Miro Bachop (born 11 June 1967) is a former rugby union footballer from New Zealand. He is of Samoan, Tahitian and Cook Islands heritage.
Career[]
Bachop made his All Blacks debut against Japan B in Tokyo on 21 October 1987, his first international debut was against Wales on 4 November 1989.[1][2]
He played at the 1991 and 1995 Rugby World Cup.[3] In 1999 Bachop played for Japan at the 1999 Rugby World Cup.[4]
All Blacks statistics[]
- Tests: 31 (0 as Captain)
- Games: 23 (0 as Captain)
- Total Matches: 54 (0 as Captain)
- Test Points: 18pts (4t, 0c, 0p, 0dg, 0m)
- Game Points: 61pts (15t, 0c, 0p, 0dg, 0m)
- Total Points: 79pts (19t, 0c, 0p, 0dg, 0m)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ allblacks.com. "Graeme Bachop". Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ Wynne Gray (28 April 2014). "100 Greatest All Blacks: Graeme Bachop". Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ sporting-heroes.net. "Graeme Bachop". Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ ESPNscrum Staff (2 June 2011). "Split loyalties". Retrieved 14 April 2015.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1967 births
- Japanese rugby union players
- New Zealand people of Cook Island descent
- New Zealand people of French Polynesian descent
- New Zealand people of Samoan descent
- Japan international rugby union players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Canterbury rugby union players
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in Japan
- New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Japan
- Rugby union players from Christchurch
- Living people
- Bachop-Mauger family
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1960s birth stubs