Date of birth | 28 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Reading, Berkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 126 kg (19 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Will Davies-King (born 28 July 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Rugby as a prop. He was a Wales under-20 international despite being born in England and has since been chosen for Warren Gatland's training squad for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, with Davies-King later withdrawing due to injury. [1]
Davies-King made his debut for the Cardiff team in 2019 having previously played for the Cardiff academy and Cardiff RFC.
On 1 May 2023, Warren Gatland selected him in Wales' 54 player training squad for the Rugby World Cup 2023. [2]
Will Davies-King was raised in Chepstow and educated at King's school in Gloucester on a rugby scholarship, before returning to Wales to study at the Cardiff Met college whilst juggling his professional rugby career.
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