Corné Fourie
Appearance
Date of birth | 2 September 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Roodepoort, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 118 kg (18 st 8 lb; 260 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Hoërskool Waterkloof | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Corné Fourie (born 2 September 1988) is a South African rugby union player. He can play as a loosehead prop or hooker. He previously played for the Template:Rut Blue Bulls, the Template:Rut Pumas, the Template:Rut Golden Lions and Template:Rut Western Province domestically, for the Template:Rut Lions and Template:Rut Stormers in Super Rugby, the Panasonic Wild Knights in the Top League in Japan and Gloucester in the English Premiership Rugby.
He joined the Template:Rut Golden Lions Currie Cup team for the 2016 season.[1]
On 9 September 2019, it was confirmed that Fourie would join Premiership Rugby side Gloucester for the 2019–20 season.[2] He left on 9 April 2021.[3]
External links
- "SA Rugby Player Profile – Corné Fourie". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
- itsrugby.co.uk profile
References
- ^ "De Klerk and Fourie sign with Lions Rugby" (Press release). Golden Lions. 3 July 2015. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Gloucester Rugby add depth to front row resources with signing of Corné Fourie" (Press release). Gloucester Rugby. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ "Corné Fourie departs Gloucester Rugby". Gloucester Rugby. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
Categories:
- Living people
- 1988 births
- South African rugby union players
- Rugby union props
- White South African people
- Afrikaner people
- Pumas (Currie Cup) players
- Blue Bulls players
- People from Roodepoort
- Lions (United Rugby Championship) players
- South Africa Under-20 international rugby union players
- Sportspeople from Gauteng
- Golden Lions players
- Saitama Wild Knights players
- Stormers players
- Western Province (rugby union) players