Peter Betham
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| Full name | Peter Betham | ||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Petey | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 January 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (15 st 6 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Centre | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2015− | Leicester Tigers | 46 | (50) |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2012 2014 |
Tasman Sydney Stars |
9 1 |
(25) (0) |
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Correct as of 9 October 2012
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| Super Rugby | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2008–09 2010 2011 2012–15 |
Brumbies Waratahs Rebels Waratahs |
0 0 8 33 |
(0) (0) (5) (55) |
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Correct as of 28 June 2015
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2013– | Australia | 2 | (5) |
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Correct as of 28 November 2015
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Peter Betham (born 6 January 1989) is a professional rugby union player. He currently plays for the Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership competition after signing in April 2015. He is also a representative player for Australia in international rugby matches. His usual position is wing or fullback.
Betham was born in Wellington, New Zealand to parents of Samoan heritage. His family moved to Australia and he was brought up in Sydney where he started playing rugby league with the Coogee Randwick Wombats club at the age of 10. He played high school rugby for St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill located on Sydney's Lower North Shore. He became friends with St. Joseph's team mate Kurtley Beale and for two years the pair backed up with Kensington in the South Sydney junior rugby league competition. Having attended a public primary school, Peter represented Sydney East PSSA at the State Championships in 2001 at Kiama. His team mate Rob Horne and Peter went on to represent NSW PSSA that year.
Betham played for NSW Schools in the 2005 National U16 Championship. He subsequently played for the Australia A Schools team that went on to beat New Zealand. In 2006 Betham toured Fiji and New Zealand with the Australian Schoolboys team.
In 2007 he played rugby while studying American history at Sydney University, and was selected in the Australian U19 Rugby World Championship squad. He also became a holder of an Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) scholarship, one of 26.
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