Birth name | Al Kanaar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 4 March 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Nowra, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 195 cm (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 112 kg (17 st 9 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Al Kanaar (born 4 March 1983) is a former Australian Rugby union footballer. Kanaar played as a lock and a flanker for the New South Wales Waratahs. Kanaar made 26 appearances for NSW and was capped once for the Wallabies, against the All Blacks at Eden Park in 2005. He was forced to retire before the 2008 season started due to a chronic knee injury. [1] Al Kanaar is now the purple cap age group manager at Gerringong SLSC nippers. Al finished in seventh place in the swim at the Gerringong SLSC club champs before a sixth-place finish in the Taplin Relay at the 2020 Branch Championships.[ citation needed ]
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