| Birth name | Clemens von Grumbkow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 22 July 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Leimen, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 101 kg (15 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clemens von Grumbkow (born 22 July 1983) [1] is a German international rugby union player, playing for the U.S. Dax in the French Rugby Pro D2. [2] He made his debut for Germany in a game against Poland in 2003. [3]
Von Grumbkow was born in Leimen, and originally played for SC Neuenheim in Germany, being part of the club's national championship-winning team in 2003 and 2004, [4] before joining New Zealand club Stoke RFC for the 2005 season. [2] From 2006 to 2009, he played for French club RC Orléans, a club with a number of German internationals in its ranks at the time. From 2009, he played in Italy's highest league, the Super 10 (now Top12), for Rugby Club I Cavalieri Prato. [2] At the end of the 2011–12 season he switched to the French second division side U.S. Dax. [5]
Von Grumbkow is also regularly part of the German sevens squad and played for his country at the 2005 World Games in Duisburg and the 2009 London Sevens. [6]
Clemens von Grumbkow's personal statistics in club and international rugby: [4] [7]
| Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points | Place |
| 2006–2008 | Germany | European Nations Cup Second Division | 7 | 0 | Champions |
| 2008–2010 | Germany | European Nations Cup First Division | 10 | 5 | 6th – Relegated |
| 2010–2012 | Germany | European Nations Cup Division 1B | 2 | 0 | 4th |
| 2012–2014 | Germany | European Nations Cup Division 1B | 2 | 5 | ongoing |
| Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points |
| 2009 | Germany | Friendly | 1 | 0 |
| Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points | Place |
| 2006–07 | RC Orléans | Fédérale 1 | 13 | 25 | |
| 2007–08 | 18 | 15 | |||
| 2008–09 | 16 | 10 | |||
| 2009–10 | Cavalieri Prato | National Championship of Excellence | 16 | 5 | |
| 2010–11 | 14 | 20 | |||
| 2011–12 | 15 | 40 | |||
| 2012–13 | Dax | Rugby Pro D2 |
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