Arno van Wyk

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Arno van Wyk
Arno Van Wyk Montpellier.jpg
Date of birth (1994-05-19) 19 May 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth Parow, South Africa
Height1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Weight106 kg (16 st 10 lb; 234 lb)
School Hoër Landbouskool Boland (in Afrikaans)
University University of Pretoria
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Current team Montpellier
Youth career
2013–2015 Blue Bulls
2016–2017 Montpellier
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2014 UP Tuks 3 (5)
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2014–2015 Blue Bulls 11 (20)
2016–present Montpellier 6 (0)
Correct as of 7 January 2017
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2014 South Africa Under-20 0 (0)

Arno van Wyk (born 19 May 1994) is a South African professional rugby union player, currently playing with French side Montpellier in the Top 14 competition. He usually plays as a hooker. [1] [2]

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Rugby career

Blue Bulls

Van Wyk was born in Parow, but was never selected to represent Western Province at school level. He moved to Pretoria after school to join the Blue Bulls academy prior to the 2013 season and made thirteen appearances for a Blue Bulls U19 side that won the 2013 Under-19 Provincial Championship, scoring tries in matches against the Leopards [3] and Border. [4]

He made three appearances for UP Tuks in the 2014 Varsity Cup, scoring a try in his side's 26–16 victory over UCT Ikey Tigers. [5] He made his first class debut on 25 April 2014, coming on as a replacement for the final half an hour of their match against the Limpopo Blue Bulls and scoring a try in his side's 116–0 victory. [6] He made one more appearance as a replacement in the competition and was then called up to the South Africa Under-20 team. He was not initially named in the team, [7] but replaced Malcolm Marx in the squad after he picked up an injury after their first match of the competition. [8] Despite his call-up, Van Wyk failed to make an appearance in the competition. He returned to domestic action to make seven appearances for the Blue Bulls U21s in the 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship, including in the final which was won by the Blue Bulls after beating Western Province 20–10 in Cape Town. [9]

Van Wyk made nine appearances for the Blue Bulls in the 2015 Vodacom Cup, starting eight of those. He scored tries in matches against the Falcons, [10] Leopards XV [11] and Griffons [12] on the Blue Bulls' journey to the semi-final, where they lost 6–10 to Western Province. [13] A further nine appearances followed in the Under-21 team's Provincial Championship campaign, where he scored one try in their match against the Leopards. [14]

Montpellier

At the start of 2016, Van Wyk moved to France to join Top 14 side Montpellier. He joined as a medical joker for the injured Charles Geli, also signing a youth contract with the team. He made his debut for the senior team in their Round 23 match against La Rochelle, replacing Mickaël Ivaldi for the second half of the match, [15] and was named in the senior squad for the 2016–17 season. [16]

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