Mark Bennett (Scottish rugby player)

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Mark Bennett
Birth nameMark Stewart Bennett
Date of birth (1993-02-03) 3 February 1993 (age 26)
Place of birth Irvine, Scotland
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight90 kg (14 st 2 lb; 198 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2002–10
2010–11		 Cumnock
Ayr 		()
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2010–2011
2011–2012
2012–2017
2017–		 Glasgow Warriors
Clermont Auvergne
Glasgow Warriors
Edinburgh Rugby 		1
0
65
13		 (0)
(0)
(110)
(19)
Correct as of 1 September 2018
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2011–2013
2014–		 Scotland U20
Scotland 		23
22		 (45)
(30)
Correct as of 18 June 2018
National sevens team(s)
YearsTeamComps
2013–
2016		 Scotland 7s
GB 7s 		2 (35)
1 (10)
Medal record
Men's rugby sevens
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team competition

Mark Stewart Bennett (born 3 February 1993) is a Scottish rugby union footballer who plays as a centre for Edinburgh Rugby in the Pro14.

Rugby union Team sport, code of rugby football

Rugby union, widely known simply as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts at each end.

Edinburgh Rugby Scottish rugby union franchise

Edinburgh Rugby is one of the two professional rugby teams from Scotland. The club competes in the Pro14, along with Glasgow Warriors, its oldest rival. Edinburgh plays most of its home games at Murrayfield Stadium.

Pro14 annual rugby union competition

The Pro14 is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa and Wales. The league is one of the three major professional leagues in Europe, the most successful European teams from which go forward to compete in the European Rugby Champions Cup, the pan-European championship which replaced the Heineken Cup after the 2013–14 season.

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Rugby union career

Amateur career

Bennett started his career playing for Cumnock before moving to Ayr RFC and winning the Scottish Premiership in 2011.

Ayr Rugby Football Club is a rugby union side, currently playing in the Super 6 where they are known as the Ayrshire Bulls. The team is based in Ayr in Scotland, and plays at Millbrae, Alloway.

Scottish Premiership (rugby)

The Scottish Premiership is an amateur league competition for Scottish rugby union clubs. First held in 1973, it is the top division of the Scottish League Championship. The current champions are Ayr, while the most successful club is Hawick, who have won the competition twelve times.

Professional career

He also made his senior debut for Glasgow in 2011 and secured a move to French side ASM Clermont Auvergne. [1] A serious knee injury disrupted his season, and he returned to Glasgow in 2012 to join the Warriors on loan [2] with the move being made permanent in 2013. [3]

Glasgow Warriors Scottish rugby union franchise

Glasgow Warriors are one of the two professional rugby union sides from Scotland. The team plays in the Pro14 league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014-15 season they won the Pro12 title and became the first Scottish team to win a major trophy in rugby union's professional era.

ASM Clermont Auvergne French rugby union club

Association Sportive Montferrandaise Clermont Auvergne is a French rugby union club from Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes that currently competes in Top 14, the top level of the French league system. Clermont are two times French champions in 2009-10 and 2016-17. The rugby section is a part of a multi-sport club called AS Montferrand, which was founded in 1911 and adopted that name in 1919. Although the rugby section changed its name to the current ASM Clermont Auvergne in 2004, it is still frequently referred to as Montferrand both within and outside France.

On 14 February 2017, Edinburgh Rugby announced that they had signed him on a three-year deal and that he would begin playing for them from the summer. [4]

International career

Bennett has represented Scotland at Under 18 level four times and played 21 times at under-20 level including appearances at the 2011, 2012 and 2013 IRB Junior World Championships. [5] [6]

The Scotland national under-18 rugby union team is the under-18 team of the Scotland national rugby union team in the sport of rugby union.

The Scotland national under-20 rugby union team participates in the World Rugby Under 20 Championship. Their highest placement is 5th which they achieved in the 2017 World Rugby Under 20 Championship.

2011 IRB Junior World Championship

The 2011 IRB Junior World Championship was the fourth annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, this competition replaced the now defunct under 19 and under 21 world championships. The event was organised by rugby's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB). The winners were New Zealand, who won all the competitions held since the inaugural year in 2008.

Bennett was named in Vern Cotter's first ever squad for Scotland's 2014 summer tour, but failed to play in any of the four games. He was reselected in Scotland's squad for the 2014 Autumn Internationals, making his debut in Scotland's 41–31 victory over Argentina on 8 November 2014.

In June 2014, the Scotland rugby union team played single test matches against four countries; Argentina, Canada, South Africa and the United States. The opening three tests, United States, Canada and Argentina, coinceded with the June international window, whereas the test against South Africa fell outside the international window. This meant players playing outside Scotland at club level were not permitted to be released by their clubs to represent Scotland against South Africa; Scotland effectively picked two separate squads, one for the USA and Canada games, the other for Argentina and South Africa.

The 2014 end-of-year rugby tests, also known as the 2014 autumn internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, were international rugby union matches predominantly played between visiting Southern Hemisphere countries and European nations.

After establishing himself in the squad, Bennett played in all five of Scotland's matches in the 2015 Six Nations Championship, notching tries against Italy and England. He also had a potentially decisive try against Wales controversially disallowed, after team-mate Sam Hidalgo-Clyne was incorrectly judged to have knocked-on when fouled near the try line.

After recovering from an injury which ruled him out of the run-in to Glasgow Warriors' 2014–15 Pro12 title triumph, Bennett was selected in Scotland's 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. [7] He scored two tries in the team's opening match victory over Japan. [8] Bennett was nominated for "Breakthrough Player of the Year" by World Rugby after the tournament. [9]

He represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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References

  1. ↑ "Mark Bennett joins Clermont Auvergne". Glasgow Warriors. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Mark Bennett joins Glasgow on loan". Glasgow Warriors. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "Glasgow Warriors sign Mark Bennett from Clermont Auvergne". Telegraph. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Mark Bennett: Scotland centre to join Edinburgh from Glasgow Warriors". BBC News. 14 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Mark Bennett Scotland Under 20 Player Profile". Scottishrugby.org. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Mark Bennett IRB JWC Player Profile". IRB.com. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  7. ↑ http://thescotlandteam.com/2015/09/01/scotland-rugby-world-cup-2015-squad/
  8. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/34312611
  9. ↑ "Rugby World Cup 2015: Mark Bennett in running for world award". BBC Sport. BBC. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
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