Deon Kayser
Rugby player
Birth name | Deon Jerome Kayser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1970-07-03) 3 July 1970 (age 54) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Uitenhage, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deon Jerome Kayser (born 3 July 1970 in Uitenhage) is a South African former rugby union player and current coach.[1] He played as a wing.
Career
Kayser made his senior provincial debut for Eastern Province in 1996 and at the end of the 1999 season he moved to the Sharks. He was called up for the Springboks during the test match at Durban on 19 June 1999 against Italy.
He was also part of the 1999 Rugby World Cup roster, where he took part in 5 matches, and played the 1999 and 2001 Tri Nations.[2]
Until 2004, he played for the Sharks the following season with the Mighty Elephants,[3] at the end of which he retired. Since 2009, he is technical consultant [4] - and then coach of the Sharks' youth team.
Test history
No. | Opposition | Result (SA 1st) | Position | Tries | Date | Venue |
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1. | ![]() | 101–0 | Replacement | 3 | 19 Jun 1999 | Kings Park, Durban |
2. | ![]() | 6–32 | Replacement | 17 Jul 1999 | Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane | |
3. | ![]() | 18–34 | Wing | 7 Aug 1999 | Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria | |
4. | ![]() | 10–9 | Wing | 14 Aug 1999 | Newlands, Cape Town | |
5. | ![]() | 46–29 | Wing | 1 | 3 Oct 1999 | Murrayfield, Edinburgh |
6. | ![]() | 47–3 | Replacement | 10 Oct 1999 | Murrayfield, Edinburgh | |
7. | ![]() | 39–3 | Wing | 1 | 15 Oct 1999 | Hampden Park, Glasgow |
8. | ![]() | 44–21 | Wing | 24 Oct 1999 | Stade de France, Paris | |
9. | ![]() | 21–27 | Wing | 30 Oct 1999 | Twickenham, London | |
10. | ![]() | 60–14 | Replacement | 30 Jun 2001 | Boet Erasmus, Port Elizabeth | |
11. | ![]() | 3–12 | Replacement | 21 Jul 2001 | Newlands, Cape Town | |
12. | ![]() | 14–14 | Replacement | 18 Aug 2001 | Subiaco Oval, Perth | |
13. | ![]() | 15–26 | Replacement | 25 Aug 2001 | Eden Park, Auckland |
See also
- List of South Africa national rugby union players – Springbok no. 675
- List of South Africa national rugby sevens players
References
External links
- Deon Kayser profile Archived 24 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine SARugby.net
- Deon Kayser at ESPNscrum