Kris Radlinski

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Kris Radlinski is an English rugby league Full-back. He plays for Wigan Warriors, and has represented Great Britain.

He was born on the 9th April 1976, in Wigan. He signed for the town's club in 1993, aged 17, and has since played his entire professional career with them.

In a 13 year playing career he was a Championship winner in 1996, won the Regal Trophy 1996, the Grand Final in 1998 and the Challenge Cup in 2002. In the 2002 Challenge Cup final at Murrayfield he won the Lance Todd Trophy for man of the match.

Internationally he was capped 20 times by Great Britain, and won 10 England caps.

He has twice been linked with a move to rugby union, in 2001 and 2005, but both times chose to remain with his hometown club.

Radlinski announced his retirement from the sport prematurely on 2/3/06 due to persistent injuries. He had made 310 appearances for Wigan, scoring 183 tries. This brought down the curtain on a successful career during which the player was a loyal servant to his club and to the game of Rugby League.

In June 2006 Radlinski made the shock announcement that he would be coming out of retirement to help his old club Wigan Warriors. Kris had retired from Rugby League and left the Warriors earlier in 2006 but after watching Wigan struggle in the Super League he decided to come out of retirement to help them avoid relegation.