Simon Shaw
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| Full name | Simon Dalton Shaw | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1 September 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nairobi, Kenya | ||||||||||||
| Height | 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 122 kg (19 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||
| School |
Runnymede College Godalming College |
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| University | University of the West of England | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Toulon RFC | ||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||
| Position | Lock | ||||||||||||
| Youth clubs | |||||||||||||
| Cranleigh RFC | |||||||||||||
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| Professional / senior clubs | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1990–1997 1997–2011 2011–2013 |
Bristol London Wasps Toulon |
306 41 |
(128) (0) |
| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1996–2011 1997/2005/2009 |
England British and Irish Lions Barbarian F.C. |
71 2 |
(10) (0) |
Simon Dalton Shaw MBE (born 1 September 1973) is a former English rugby union player who played at lock. He last played for Toulon and played for England.
He was born 1 September 1973 in Nairobi, Kenya.
At 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in), he is one of the tallest men to have played for England. Shaw has represented England at various levels including students and Under-21s. He played for Bristol at 17. This was despite not taking up the game seriously until he was 16, just after his family had moved to England from Spain. He was educated at Runnymede College, in Madrid and at Godalming College in Surrey. He also played for Cranleigh Rugby Club in his younger years, and often returns to train with the youth teams.
Shaw played for Bristol at the age of 17. He joined London Wasps in 1997. Wasps won the Tetley's Bitter Cup in 1999 and retained it the following season with a victory over the Northampton Saints. Playing against Bath in August 2000, Shaw became the only lock in the Premiership to have scored a drop goal.
In the 2002–03 Zurich Premiership Shaw won the Premiership for the first time, defeating Gloucester in the final. That season Shaw also won his first European silverware with victory against Bath in the 2002-03 Parker Pen Challenge Cup. The 2003-04 Zurich Premiership season saw Wasps retain their Premiership crown and win the 2003-04 Heineken Cup, their first Heineken Cup title.
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