| Birth name | Anjo Buckmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1 March 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 105 kg (16 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anjo Buckmann (born 1 March 1989) [1] is a German international rugby union player, playing for the TSV Handschuhsheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
Buckmann played in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 German championship final for Heidelberger RK, with the club winning all of them. He made his debut for Germany in a friendly against Hong Kong on 12 December 2009. [1]
Buckmann left the TSV Handschuhsheim at the end of the 2008-09 season to join the Heidelberger RK. [2] He was part of a group of German players which were sent to South Africa in 2009 to improve their rugby skills at the Sharks Academy as part of the Wild Rugby Academy program. [3]
Buckman competed for Germany at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. [4]
Anjo Buckmann's personal statistics in club and international rugby: [5]
| Year | Club | Division | Games | Tries | Con | Pen | DG | Place |
| 2008-09 | TSV Handschuhsheim | Rugby-Bundesliga | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th |
| 2009-10 | Heidelberger RK | Rugby-Bundesliga | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3rd — Champions |
| 2010-11 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1st — Champions | ||
| 2011-12 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1st — Champions |
| Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points | Place |
| 2008-2010 | Germany | European Nations Cup First Division | 1 | 0 | 6th — Relegated |
| 2010–2012 | Germany | European Nations Cup Division 1B | 4 | 0 | 4th |
| 2012–2014 | Germany | European Nations Cup Division 1B | 2 | 0 | ongoing |
| Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points |
| 2009 | Germany | Friendly | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 |
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