Rob Evans (rugby player)

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Rob Evans
Birth nameRobert Evans
Date of birth (1992-04-14) 14 April 1992 (age 27)
Place of birth Haverfordwest, Wales
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight116 kg (256 lb; 18 st 4 lb)
School Spittal VC School
Sir Thomas Picton School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Loosehead Prop
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Haverfordwest RFC ()
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2010–2014 Carmarthen Quins 34 (30)
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2013– Scarlets 69 (40)
Correct as of 7 May 2016
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2015– Wales 35 (5)
Correct as of 16 March 2019

Robert Evans (born 14 April 1992 in Haverfordwest, Wales) is a Wales international rugby union player. He plays at prop for the Scarlets.

Haverfordwest county town of Pembrokeshire, Wales

Haverfordwest is the county town of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and the most populous urban area in Pembrokeshire with a population of 13,367 in 2001, though its community boundaries made it the second-most populous settlement in the county, with 10,812 people. The 2011 census quoted a population of only 12,042 living within the confines of the parish. This agreed with the total population of all five wards involved: Castle, Prendergast, Portfield, Priory and Garth. Merlin's Bridge is a separate village and community situated to the south.

Wales Country in northwest Europe, part of the United Kingdom

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,680 miles (2,700 km) of coastline and is largely mountainous, with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon, its highest summit. The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate.

Rugby union Team sport, code of rugby football

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.

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Rugby career

He made his regional debut for the Scarlets during the 2012–13 season, coming on as a substitute against Sale Sharks in the LV Cup. He had previously played for Carmarthen Quins in the Welsh Premier Division.

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Scarlets Welsh rugby union team

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International

Evans has been a Wales Under-20s international, and helped the team reach third place in the 2012 IRB Junior World Championship in South Africa, playing in the front row alongside fellow Scarlets Kirby Myhill and Samson Lee.

The Wales national Under 20 rugby team is for Welsh rugby union players aged 20 or under on January 1 of the year during which they are selected.

2012 IRB Junior World Championship

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Kirby Myhill is a Welsh rugby union rugby player currently playing at Hooker for the Cardiff Blues having progressed through the Scarlets academy. He is also a Wales Under-20 international and he was named as Wales captain for the 2012 Under 20 Six Nations tournament. Myhill is the nephew of former Wales international rugby union flanker Mark Perego and brother of fellow Scarlet hooker Torin Myhill.

In November 2013, Evans was called into the senior Wales squad for the Autumn international matches. [1]

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.

On 20 January 2015, Evans was named in the 34-man Wales squad for the 2015 Six Nations Championship, [2] making his debut as a half time replacement in the win against Ireland.

Wales national rugby union team Nation rugby team from Wales

The Wales national rugby union team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 27 times outright. Wales' most recent championship and Grand Slam victory came in 2019.

The 2015 Six Nations Championship, known as the 2015 RBS 6 Nations because of the tournament's sponsorship by The Royal Bank of Scotland, was the 16th series of the Six Nations Championship, the annual rugby union tournament. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Including the competition's previous incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and Five Nations Championship, it was the 121st edition of the tournament.

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References

  1. ↑ Evans call up
  2. ↑ "Wales name 34-man Six Nations squad". WRU. 20 January 2015.
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