Fritz van Heerden
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| Birth name | Frederick Johannes van Heerden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 29 June 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Roodepoort, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 231 lb (105 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frederick Johannes 'Fritz' van Heerden (born 29 June 1970) is a former South African rugby union player who played international rugby for the
Western Province and Leicester Tigers
.
Playing career
Van Heerden matriculated at Roodepoort High School in 1988 and represented
Maties on the rugby field. He made his senior provincial debut in July 1991, when he replaced the injured Gert Smal, in the Western Province team. In 1996 he was named the Western Province captain.[2][3]
He joined Leicester Tigers in 1997, following fellow South African
Dean Richards (normally a number eight) playing lock. Also able to play flanker, he complemented Johnson's more powerful play with mobility, but perhaps more importantly he pioneered the contesting of the opposition's line-out
throws.
He returned to South Africa in 1999 to try to play for his country in the
1999 World Cup, and was drafted into the side late as a replacement for Selborne Boome, playing against Spain. After the World Cup, he returned to Leicester where he helped in the development of England lock Ben Kay
. He retired.
Test history
| No. | Opponents | Results (SA 1st) |
Position | Tries | Dates | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  England |
15–32 | Flank | 4 Jun 1994 | Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria | |
| 2. | England |
27–9 | Replacement | 11 Jun 1994 | Newlands, Cape Town | |
| 3. |  New Zealand |
18–18 | Flank | 6 Aug 1994 | Eden Park, Auckland | |
| 4. |  Italy |
40–21 | Flank | 12 Nov 1995 | Stadio Olimpico, Rome | |
| 5. | England |
24–14 | Flank | 18 Nov 1995 | Twickenham, London | |
| 6. | New Zealand |
32–22 | Replacement | 31 Aug 1996 | Ellis Park, Johannesburg | |
| 7. |  Argentina |
46–15 | Replacement | 9 Nov 1996 | Ferro Carril Oeste , Buenos Aires
| |
| 8. | Argentina |
44–21 | Replacement | 16 Nov 1996 | Ferro Carril Oeste, Buenos Aires | |
| 9. |  Tonga |
74–10 | Lock |
1 | 10 Jun 1997 | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 10. |  British Lions |
15–18 | Replacement | 28 Jun 1997 | Kings Park, Durban | |
| 11. | British Lions |
35–16 | Replacement | 5 Jul 1997 | Ellis Park, Johannesburg | |
| 12. | New Zealand |
32–35 | Replacement | 19 Jul 1997 | Ellis Park, Johannesburg | |
| 13. | New Zealand |
35–55 | Replacement | 9 Aug 1997 | Eden Park, Auckland | |
| 14. |  Spain |
47–3 | Lock | 10 Oct 1999 | Murrayfield, Edinburgh |
See also
- List of South Africa national rugby union players – Springbok no. 606
References
- ^ "Fritz van Heerden". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- OCLC 190836768.
- ISBN 0620209607.