Jason Leonard
| Full name | Jason Leonard | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 14 August 1968 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Barking, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 17 st 7 lb (111 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Warren Comprehensive, Chadwell Heath | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Prop | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1989-1990 1990–2004 |
Saracens Harlequins |
19 290 |
(4) (9) |
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Correct as of 25 June 2014
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1990–2004 1993–2001 |
England British and Irish Lions |
114 5 |
(5) (0) |
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Correct as of 25 June 2014
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Jason Leonard OBE (born 14 August 1968) is an English former rugby union player, and has been the president of the Rugby Football Union since 2015.
Nicknamed The Fun Bus, Leonard was a prop forward who won 114 caps for England and five for the British and Irish Lions. His total of 119 was a world record until 2006, when it was surpassed by George Gregan.
Leonard played in England teams which won four Grand Slams (1991, 1992, 1995 and 2003) and the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and was part of the British and Irish Lions squad that won the test series during their 1997 tour of South Africa.
His lengthy career straddled both the amateur and professional eras and he had a job as a carpenter. He began playing for his home club, Barking and his school teams as a youth, and as his playing talents became recognised, interest was shown by London club Saracens, where he later moved. Later still, he moved to Harlequins, where he stayed until his professional retirement in May 2004, making a total of 144 appearances and ending on a winning note as his team won the European Parker Pen Challenge Cup. He would have made a far greater number of club appearances if it had not been for the constant international demands of England and the British and Irish Lions.
Leonard won his first cap in a 'friendly' on 28 July 1990, against Argentina at Buenos Aires. At the age of 21 he was the youngest prop forward to ever play for England. The visitors were made to feel unwelcome, however, as the game was played on the 8th anniversary of the Falklands War. Leonard describes in his autobiography that the crowd were throwing oranges (among other things) at the England players. The most interesting object he saw on the pitch was a bathroom tap. England eventually won the game 25–12; it proved a baptism of fire for the young Leonard.
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