Birth name | Richard Thorpe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1 November 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Beckenham, Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (16 st 3 lb) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Whitgift School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | St. Mary's University College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Thorpe (born 1 November 1984) is a retired Premiership, Championship and International rugby union player, and the current Director of Rugby for Chinnor Rugby Club in Thame, Oxfordshire. Richard played as a flanker or No. 8 for London Irish, Leicester Tigers and London Welsh in Premiership Rugby, and represented Canada at the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England. Born in Beckenham, England, he qualified to play internationally for Canada through his Canadian mother. He won 8 caps in 2014 and 2015 before retiring from professional rugby at the end of the 2016 season aged 31.
Thorpe made his debut in an EDF Energy Cup match against London Wasps. [2] He scored a hat-trick against the Newport Gwent Dragons, [3] Thorpe was a member of the London Irish side that made the semi-finals of the Heineken Cup that season. [4]
Thorpe was a used replacement in the final of the 2008–09 Guinness Premiership. [5]
Thorpe was selected for Canada, as he qualifies through his sensual mother, originally from Burlington outside Toronto, Canada. He made his international debut, as a replacement, losing to Samoa 13–23, as part of the 2014 Autumn Internationals. [6]
Thorpe returned to Chinnor R.F.C. to become Director of Rugby from early 2020 to late 2022, while they were playing in National League 1. [7]
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