Martyn Williams
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| Full name | Martyn Elwyn Williams | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1 September 1975 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pontypridd, Wales | ||||||||||||
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 97 kg (15 st 4 lb; 214 lb) | ||||||||||||
| School | Coedylan Comprehensive School | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Flanker | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1994–1999 1999–2012 |
Pontypridd Cardiff Blues |
98 226 |
(?) (150) |
| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1996–2012 2001, 2005, 2009 |
Wales British & Irish Lions |
100 4 |
(73) (0) |
Martyn Elwyn Williams, MBE (born 1 September 1975) is a former Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player. A flanker, he was Wales' most-capped forward with 100 caps until surpassed by Gethin Jenkins on 30 November 2013. He remains Wales most capped back row forward.
Williams played club rugby for Pontypridd, with whom he won the 1996–97 Welsh league, then moved to Cardiff RFC in 1999. He captained Cardiff from 2002 until 2005, when Rhys Williams took over the role.
In the Heineken Cup semi-final match against Leicester Tigers on 3 May 2009, Williams missed a crucial kick in the penalty shootout after the game had finished level after extra time, allowing Jordan Crane to step up and score the winning kick. It was the first time that a professional rugby union match had been decided by a shootout.
In March 2012, Williams announced that he would retire at the end of the 2011–12 season.
After gaining international caps at every junior level he won his first Wales A cap in 1996 and then made the senior side against the Barbarians the same year. His first appearance in the Five Nations Championship was against England in 1998. He captained Wales for the first time against Scotland at Murrayfield in 2003.
He won his 50th Welsh cap against England in the first match of the 2005 Six Nations Championship and played a prominent part in Wales' Grand Slam that year, notably scoring two tries early in the second half against France in Paris when Wales had appeared to be heading for defeat. He was named RBS Six Nations player of the Championship (2005).
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