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Chris McKivat

Olympic medal record
Men's Rugby union
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Team competition
Chris McKivat
McKivat 1908.jpg
Full name Christopher Hobart McKivat
Nickname The Boy from the Bush
Date of birth (1879-11-27)27 November 1879
Place of birth Cumnock, New South Wales
Date of death 4 May 1941(1941-05-04) (aged 61)
Place of death Camperdown, New South Wales
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Rugby league career
Position Halfback
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–14 Glebe Dirty Reds 54 (15)
State Representation
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–12 New South Wales 13 (15)
National teams
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–12 Australia 5 (12)
Teams coached
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–12 Australia 5 (12)
Teams coached
1915–20
1920–22
1928
Glebe Dirty Reds
North Sydney Bears
Western Suburbs Magpies
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position fly-half Five-eighth & halfback
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team    
1895–1900
1900–05
1905
Bowen Brothers
Wellington
Glebe Rugby Union
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1903–04
1905-1909
Central Western
New South Wales
?
16
National team(s)
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1907–09 Wallabies 4 (0)
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–14 Glebe Dirty Reds 54 (15)
State Representation
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–12 New South Wales 13 (15)
National teams
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–12 Australia 5 (12)
Teams coached
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1910–12 Australia 5 (12)
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team    
1895–1900
1900–05
1905
Bowen Brothers
Wellington
Glebe Rugby Union
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1903–04
1905-1909
Central Western
New South Wales
?
16
National team(s)
Years Club / team Apps (points)
1907–09 Wallabies 4 (0)

Christopher Hobart McKivat (alternatively spelled McKivatt) (27 November 1879 – 4 May 1941) was an Australian rugby union and rugby league player – a dual-code rugby international. He represented the Wallabies in over 20 Tests and tour matches from 1907 to 1909 and the Kangaroos in 5 Tests from 1910 to 1912. He is unique in Australian rugby history as the only man to captain both the national rugby union and rugby league teams. Following his playing career he became the most successful coach of the North Sydney Bears in the club's history.

He captained the 1908 Summer Olympics gold medal winning Wallaby side and was the eighth captain of the Australian national rugby league team leading them in all 3 Tests of the 1911–12 tour. Thus he captained his country to victory on tour in two different rugby codes.

He was born in Cumnock, New South Wales and educated by the Patrician Brothers in Orange. He played country rugby union with the "Our Boys" club in Wellington and was regularly selected in country representative teams until he was 26. He was a tactically brilliant half-back and a great on-field leader of both forwards and backs.

Affectionately known as the "hairy bloke", he moved to Sydney to join the Glebe Rugby Club in 1905 and played five-eighth for four seasons outside Fred Wood who would later be vice-captain of the 1908–09 Wallabies. McKivat was selected for New South Wales in 1905 to represent against the visiting All Blacks and then for the Wallabies in 1907 playing three Tests against the All Blacks. He was on the first Wallaby tour of the United Kingdom in 1908–09 and captained the side in 17 tour matches including the historic gold medal winning match against Cornwall representing England in the 1908 London Olympics.


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