Daniel Vickerman. South African-born Australian rugby union player.

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Daniel Vickerman,South African-born Australian rugby union player,Vickerman during the 2011 Rugby World Cup Full name Daniel Joseph Vickerman Date of birth 4 June 1979 Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa Date of death 18 February 2017 (aged 37) Place of death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Height 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Weight 119 kg (18 st 10 lb) Daniel Joseph "Dan" Vickerman (4 June 1979 – 18 February 2017)[1] was a professional rugby union player. The 204 cm, 119 kg lock played 63 Tests with the Wallabies, the national team of his adopted country of Australia.[2] After seven seasons with the Wallabies, and having played Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies, Vickerman left his successful international rugby career in 2008. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he read a degree in Land Economy at Hughes Hall. While in England, he played rugby for Cambridge University and Northampton Saints. In 2011, he returned to Australia and played again for the Wallabies, including at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, before he retired from the game. In 2001, Vickerman was contracted by the Brumbies and made his debut that season in a Super 12 match against the Sharks in Durban. He played a total of seven Super 12 games that season. In 2002, he was selected to play for Australia A in Canada that year. He went on to make his test debut that year in Sydney in a match against France.[4] Vickerman became a regular for the Wallabies in 2003, either as a starter or off the bench. He signed with the Waratahs for the 2004 season.[5] Vickerman was a replacement in all the domestic Wallaby tests in 2004, but became the starting lock on the end of year tour to the United Kingdom and France.[5] In 2006 he started in all but one match for the Waratahs who made it to the finals of the 2006 Super 14 season. He was subsequently named in John Connolly's Wallaby squad. Later that season he injured his shoulder and underwent reconstruction surgery in November 2006. Although missing most of the 2007 Super 14 season through injury recovery,[4] Vickerman returned to the Test scene in a test match against Wales coming off the bench,[6] and cemented his place back in the Wallaby starting line up for the Wallabies 2007 Rugby World Cup squad.[4] Vickerman raised his 50th Test cap against Wales during the 2007 World Cup, but managed just three appearances during the 2008 international because of another shoulder injury he sustained in the 2008 Super 14 final.[4] In the autumn of 2008 Vickerman left Australia for England to study at Cambridge University, where he read Land Economy for three years. He played for Cambridge in the 2008 Varsity Match.[7] The following year, he combined his studies with a renewed professional career at Northampton Saints.[8] He signed a one-year deal in May 2009 to play with Northampton in the Guinness Premiership for the 2009–10 season,[8] but arranged to delay his arrival with the team until after the 2009 Varsity Match in December, in which he captained Cambridge to a 31–27 victory over eternal rival Oxford.[9] His first match for the Saints was against Sale Sharks on 7 March 2010.[10] Vickerman returned to Australia in 2011 to play again for the Waratahs and press his claims for national selection.[11] He was chosen in the Wallabies team which won the 2011 Tri Nations Series and claimed third place at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.[11] A persistent injury problem with stress fractures in the tibia of his right leg forced his retirement from the game in 2012.