Birth name | Deon Eugene Oosthuysen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 4 December 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Vanderbijlpark, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Driehoek High, Vanderbijlpark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deon Eugene Oosthuysen (born 4 December 1963 in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa) is a former South African rugby player. He never played in a test match, but played for South Africa in 12 tour matches.
He played for Western Transvaal (now known as the Leopards) and Northern Transvaal at provincial level.[2] He was known for having a lot of pace and scored 85 tries in 140 matches for Northern Transvaal, which is, at the time of writing (2016), still a record for any Northern Transvaal/Blue Bulls player.[3] Although he originally retired from playing in 1994 due to a hip injury, he made a comeback in 1996.[4]
In addition to playing in 12 tour matches and scoring four tries for South Africa, he was also an accomplished sevens player and was for a while coach of the South African sevens team in the late 1990s.[5]