| Birth name | Michael Bartlett | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 25 December 1978 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Christchurch, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg (14 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Michael Bartlett (born 25 December 1978 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Warriors on the wing.
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. The Christchurch urban area lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula. It is home to 404,500 residents, making it New Zealand's third-most populous city behind Auckland and Wellington. The Avon River flows through the centre of the city, with an urban park located along its banks.
New Zealand is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses—the North Island, and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland.
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world 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.
Bartlett was Scottish-qualified as his maternal grandmother was born in Scotland. [1] He signed for Glasgow Warriors in 2000, one week after arriving in Glasgow. [2]
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.
He previously played for Canterbury and was in their training academy. [3]
Canterbury is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island. The region covers an area of 44,508 square kilometres (17,185 sq mi), and is home to a population of 624,000.
He was named in a New Zealand 'back up squad' in 2000 outside the 30 man strong All Black World Cup Squad. [4]
He was included in the 2002 Scotland squad that played Barbarians on 1 June. [5]
