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| Full name | Daniel William Carter | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 5 March 1982 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Leeston, Canterbury, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg (14 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Ellesmere College Christchurch Boys' High |
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| Position | Fly-half / Inside Centre | ||||||||||||||||
| New Zealand No. | 1034 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Professional / senior clubs | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2008–09 2015– |
Perpignan Racing 92 |
5 33 |
(45) (307) |
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Correct as of 28 January 2017
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| Provincial/State sides | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2002–15 | Canterbury | 28 | (300) |
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Correct as of 31 October 2015
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| Super Rugby | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2003–15 | Crusaders | 141 | (1,708) |
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Correct as of 1 November 2015
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2003–15 | New Zealand | 112 | (1,598) |
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Correct as of 31 October 2015
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Daniel William "Dan" Carter ONZM (born 5 March 1982) is a New Zealand rugby union player.
Carter plays for Racing 92 and played for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks. He is the highest point scorer in Test match rugby, and is considered by many experts as the greatest ever first-five eighth (fly-half) in the history of the game. He was named the International Rugby Board Player of the Year in 2005, 2012 and 2015 (equaling the record three awards of Richie McCaw) and has won four Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders, and six Tri-Nations and Rugby Championships with the All Blacks.
Carter injured himself in 2011 during the 2011 Rugby World Cup but was a key member of the 2015 Rugby World Cup-winning teams, becoming one of only twenty dual Rugby Union World Cup winners. In the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final against Australia, he successfully kicked four penalties, two conversions and a drop goal. He was named the Man of the Match.
Carter, who is of pākehā and Māori descent, was born in Leeston, a small town 10 minutes drive from the Carter family home in Southbridge in the South Island of New Zealand, to Neville and Bev Carter, and has one older sister, Sarah. From the age of 5, he played with Southbridge Rugby Club as a half back (scrum half) and would go on to make representative teams for Ellesmere & Canterbury Country. He attended Ellesmere College where he played mostly at first five-eighth, and then in his final year he transferred to Christchurch Boys High School to further his chances of making it big in rugby. Some have said he was a shy and quiet young man who kept grand aspirations to himself. His great uncle was Canterbury and New Zealand half back Bill Dalley, a member of the 1924–25 Invincibles and later a Canterbury rugby administrator.
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