Duimpie Theron
Namibian rugby union player
Johannes Petrus "Duimpie" Theron (born 7 May 1979) is a South African-born rugby union player who played for the Namibia national rugby union team and represented Namibia during the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
Playing career
Theron played eight test matches for Namibia. His debut was in 1998, as a nineteen-year-old, in the Rugby World Cup qualifier against Ivory Coast in Casablanca. Theron played in three matches during the pool stages at the 1999 Rugby World Cup. Shortly after the World Cup, he also played in a test match against Germany, after which his next and final test was only five years later in 2004, against Morocco.
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