Alexander Widiker
| Full name | Alexander Widiker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 April 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kostanay, Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 110 kg (17 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Prop | ||
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| Amateur team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2006–2010 2010– |
RC Orléans Heidelberger RK |
65 33 |
(35) (45) |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2000-2015 | Germany | 59 | () |
Alexander Widiker (born 27 April 1982) is a German international rugby union player, playing for Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and, formerly, the German national rugby union team.
Widiker played in the 2011 and 2012 German championship final for Heidelberger RK, which the club both won, with Widiker scoring a try in the 2011 game.
Widiker is one of the few German players who has successfully played abroad. From 2006 to 2010, he played for the RC Orléans in the Fédérale 1, alongside two other German internationals, the brothers Matthieu and Guillaume Franke. In his last season with RCO he was also the teams captain.
Widiker was born 27 April 1982 in Kostanay, Kazakhstan, as one of three children as an ethnic German in Kazakhstan in 1982. His parents, Friedrich and Emilia Widiker, are of Volga German descent. Widiker's grandparents were forcefully removed from the former Volga German Republic to Kazakhstan. When Widiker was eleven years old, his family moved to Germany. Initially, the family moved to Bramsche in Lower Saxony but was then allocated accommodation in Leipzig. Eventually, the family chose to move to Wiesloch, near Heidelberg.
Widiker, who played association football, ice hockey and basketball in Kazakhstan, only began playing rugby when going to school in Germany. He joined the TB Rohrbach, which later merged its youth team with the SC Neuenheim, where he made his debut in the senior team at the age of 17. He played for the German Under-17 and Under-19 team, taking part in two world championships, before making his debut for the senior side on 21 October 2001 against Sweden.
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