Sam Tomkins
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Personal information
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| Full name | Sam Tomkins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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23 March 1989 Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 13 st 1 lb (83 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby league
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| Position | Fullback, Five-eighth, Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby union
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sam Tomkins (born 23 March 1989) is an English professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Wigan Warriors in the Super League. An England national representative fullback, he previously played in National Rugby League for the New Zealand Warriors. He won two Super League Grand Finals with Wigan in 2010 and 2013 as well as two Challenge Cup finals in 2011 and 2013. He is the younger brother of Joel Tomkins and the older brother of Logan Tomkins.
Tomkins was born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. After his family moved north in the early 1990s, he started playing for Chorley Panthers amateur club when he was aged seven. To develop his career further, Tomkins' family moved to Wigan where he played for Wigan St. Patrick's, before receiving a scholarship from Wigan with whom he signed a full-time contract at the end of 2007. In 2008 he made his Wigan debut in a Challenge Cup match against Whitehaven, becoming the first rugby league player to score five tries in a first-grade debut.
2009 would prove to be Tomkins' breakthrough year. He made his league debut against Harlequins RL and made 27 appearances during the season, scoring 15 tries. He established himself as Wigan's first choice stand-off, and was named in the Super League Dream Team, as well as receiving the club's own Player of the Year and the Super League's Young Player of the Year awards. In 2010, Tomkins switched from stand-off to fullback under Wigan's new head coach Michael Maguire, also appearing occasionally at scrum-half. That season, Wigan won its first league title since 1998; it was Tomkins' first honour as a player. Appearing in every game of Wigan's 2010 season, he retained his place in the Dream Team, and also received the Rugby League International Federation's Rookie of the Year award.
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