Birth name | Mark Sztyndera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 28 February 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 97 kg (15 st 4 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark Sztyndera (born 28 February 1986) [1] is a German international rugby union player, playing for Stade Niortais and the German national rugby union team.
Sztyndera played in the 2010 and 2011 German championship final for SC 1880 Frankfurt, both of which the club lost.
Sztyndera joined multiple German champions SC 1880 Frankfurt at the end of the 2008–09 season, leaving his previous club, the RK Heusenstamm. [2] He originally hails from the rugby department of Eintracht Frankfurt. [3] After the 2011–12 season he left Frankfurt to join French side Niortais to play alongside another German international, Robert Mohr. [4]
He made his debut for Germany in a friendly against Hong Kong on 12 December 2009. [1]
Sztyndera has also played for the Germany's 7's side in the past, like at the 2009 London Sevens. [5]
With thirteen tries, he was his club's best try scorer in the 2009–10 season.
Mark Sztyndera's personal statistics in club and international rugby: [3]
Year | Club | Division | Games | Tries | Con | Pen | DG | Place |
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2008–09 | RK Heusenstamm | Rugby-Bundesliga | 14 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7th |
2009–10 | SC 1880 Frankfurt | 17 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 1st – Runners-up | |
2010–11 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2nd – Runners up | ||
2011–12 | 16 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 2nd – Semi-finals |
Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points | Place |
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2008–2010 | Germany | European Nations Cup First Division | 3 | 5 | 6th – Relegated |
2010–2012 | Germany | European Nations Cup Division 1B | 2 | 0 | 4th |
2012–2014 | Germany | European Nations Cup Division 1B | 1 | 0 | ongoing |
Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points |
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2009 | Germany | Friendly | 1 | 0 |
2010 | 1 | 0 |
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