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Jurie Gouws

rugby player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ124714359 ↗
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Jurie Gouws (born April 4, 1973) is a South-African-born American former rugby union international.

Gouws, born in Durban, South Africa, played his rugby for the Santa Monica club.

A flanker, Gouws represented the United States at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where he came on as a substitute in the matches against Scotland and France. He was capped eight times for the United States during his career.

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The public source identifies “Jurie Gouws” as rugby player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jurie, Gouws and rugby.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jurie, Gouws and rugby providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124714359. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jurie Gouws” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.