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| Full name | George Musarurwa Gregan | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 19 April 1973 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lusaka, Zambia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | St Edmund's College, Canberra | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Scrum Half | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2007/8 2008-11 |
Toulon Suntory Sungoliath |
28 | (10) |
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Correct as of 14 October 2011
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1996–2007 | Brumbies | 136 | (116) |
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1994–2007 | Australia | 139 | (99) |
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George Musarurwa Gregan AM (born 19 April 1973) is a retired Australian rugby union player, and is currently Australia's highest ever internationally capped player.
Gregan was born in Lusaka, Zambia. He played Super 12 (now Super Rugby) for the Brumbies from the inception of that competition in 1996 through 2007, helping to lead them to overall victories in 2001 and 2004. He is a foundation Brumbies player and one of the few players whose career spans both the amateur and professional eras. His appearances as Australian captain include a Bledisloe Cup win in 2002 and an extra-time loss to England in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final. As a member of the Wallabies team, Gregan has attained the zenith of the rugby world, winning the Rugby World Cup in 1999. Gregan and his longtime Wallabies teammate, fly-half Stephen Larkham, also hold the all-time record for Test appearances by a halfback partnership with 79.
Gregan was born in Zambia, of a Zimbabwean mother and an Australian father, coincidentally in the same hospital where Corné Krige, who would grow up to be the South Africa captain during Gregan's Wallabies captaincy, would be born two years later. His family moved to Australia when he was two years old, and he grew up in Canberra where he was educated at St Edmund's College and graduated with a Bachelor of Education (Physical Education) from the University of Canberra.
Gregan and his wife Erica have three children, Max, Charlie and Jazz. Max was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2004 and George set up the George Gregan Foundation in 2005 after spending time with Max in hospital. The foundation raises funds to build children's playgrounds at hospitals and train doctors who specialize in epilepsy.
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