Nathan Sharpe
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| Full name | Nathan Charles Sharpe | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 26 February 1978 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 115 kg (18 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | The Southport School | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Lock | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1998–2005 2006–12 |
Reds Force |
70 92 |
(25) (15) |
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Correct as of 20 July 2012
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2002–12 1997–99 1996 |
Australia Australia U-21 Australia U-19 |
116 | (40) |
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Correct as of 1 December 2012
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Nathan Sharpe (born 26 February 1978 in Wagga Wagga) is a retired professional Australian rugby union player. He began his rugby career at the Queensland Reds in 1999 before joining the newly created Western Force in 2006, where he captained the club until his retirement in 2012. He played 116 test matches for Australia, including 20 as captain. His usual position was lock.
Sharpe was raised in the Riverina city of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and his first sporting love was Australian rules football. He started playing rugby union upon moving to the Gold Coast, Queensland at age 11. At schoolboy level, he represented The Southport School first XV and first VIII Rowing Team in 1994 and 1995 as well as being the schools School Captain. During 1996, Sharpe played for the under-19 Australian rugby union team. He was selected for the Australian under-21s national side for three years in a row from 1997 to 1999, captaining the team in 1999.
At the age of 18, Sharpe was chosen in the Queensland Reds senior squad for the 1996 Super 12 competition. It was the first year of professional rugby and the team included Wallabies John Eales and Garrick Morgan. He had to wait until 1998 to make his Queensland debut. Sharpe gained his first cap for Australia against France in Melbourne in 2002. He passed the 50-cap mark during 2006 with a remarkable sequence of Test appearances: when he was rested for the Test against Fiji in Perth in June 2007 it ended a run of 28 consecutive matches for the Wallabies since 2005.
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