William Ryder (rugby union)
Appearance
Date of birth | 6 June 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (12 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Ryder (born 6 June 1982) is a Fijian rugby union footballer. Ryder is well known within the rugby sevens community, as he has produced some of the best performances for the Fiji national sevens side. He is well known for his try scoring capability and has been one of the top try scorers of the World Sevens Series. He has scored 752 points to-date of which he has scored 82 tries (410 points). He was a part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia for the Rugby Sevens event. He played club rugby in Japan with Toyota Verblitz but he left and joined the Fiji sevens team for the 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series. On 17 May 2011 it was announced that he had signed for Stade Montois.
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Fijian rugby union players
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Rugby union fullbacks
- Expatriate rugby union players in Japan
- Male rugby sevens players
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Fiji
- Rugby sevens players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Fijian expatriate rugby union players
- Fijian expatriates in Japan
- Toyota Verblitz players
- Fijian international rugby sevens players
- Fijian people of I-Taukei Fijian descent
- People from Bua Province
- Fijian rugby union biography stubs