Joel Stransky

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Joel Theodore Stransky (born 16 July 1967) is a former South African rugby union footballer, most notable for scoring the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. He played as a fly-half.

Stransky was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and educated at Maritzburg College where he was coached under Skonk Nicholson, a well-known figure in schoolboy rugby. Between 1993 and 1996 he gained 22 caps for his country.

In 1997 he moved to Leicester Tigers, where he would play for a couple of seasons and then become backs coach. In 2002 he was engaged by Bristol Rugby as a coach, but the offer was subsequently withdrawn. Stransky took legal action and was compensated.

In the build up to the 1999 Rugby World Cup, it was suggested that he could play for England, but he discovered that he was not qualified to do so. He had also sustained a knee injury which made him an unsuitable candidate at the time.

He later returned to South Africa, and is a rugby union television commentator.

In January of 2007 Joel Stransky joined Altech Netstar (Pty) Ltd. as the Sales & Marketing director