Dennis Walger

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Dennis Walger
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Birth nameDennis Walger
Date of birth (1984-02-29) 29 February 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Offenbach, Germany
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight75 kg (11 st 11 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fullback
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
RK Heusenstamm ()
Correct as of 19 March 2010
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2007 Germany 1 (0)
Correct as of 19 March 2010
National sevens team
YearsTeamComps
Germany 7's

Dennis Walger (born 29 February 1984 in Offenbach am Main) is a German international rugby union player, playing for the RK Heusenstamm in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

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His sole international for Germany came on 29 September 2007 in a friendly against Switzerland. He is the brother of Markus Walger, also a German international. [1]

Walger has also played for the Germany's 7's side in the past, like at the World Games 2005 in Duisburg, [2] where Germany finished 8th. [3]

Honours

Club

Stats

Dennis Walger's personal statistics in club and international rugby: [4]

Club

YearClubDivisionGamesTriesConPenDGPlace
2008-09 RK Heusenstamm Rugby-Bundesliga 1130007th
2009-10 1210008th
2010-11 420009th
2011-12 0000010th

National team

YearTeamCompetitionGamesPoints
2007 Germany Friendly10

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References

  1. TotalRugby Vorschau 1. Bundesliga - 1. Spieltag 2009/2010 (in German) totalrugby.de, accessed: 19 March 2010
  2. Dennis Walger at the Worldgames 2005 website, accessed: 19 March 2010
  3. Rugby: Fiji assure gold medal in final seconds Archived 2012-05-27 at the Wayback Machine World Games website, accessed: 27 January 2009
  4. Dennis Walger profile at totalrugby.de (in German) accessed: 19 March 2010