Byron Kelleher

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Byron Kelleher
Rugby union career

Full name	Byron Terrance Kelleher
Date of birth	(1976-12-03) 3 December 1976
Place of birth	Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	95 kg (14 st 13 lb)
School	Otago Boys High School
Occupation(s)	Professional Rugby Union Footballer
Playing career
Position	Half-back
New Zealand No.	983
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2007–2011 2011-	Toulouse Stade Français	97	(60)
correct as of 16 August 2011.
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1997–2003 2004–2006	Otago Waikato	60 14	(85) (10)
Super Rugby
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1998–2003 2004–2007	Highlanders Chiefs	54 38	(80) (20)

National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1999–2007	New Zealand	57	(40)

Byron Terrance Kelleher (born 3 December 1976 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a rugby union scrum-half who currently plays for Stade Français in the French Top 14, and has played 57 tests for the All Blacks. He went to Otago Boys' High School, and originally played for Otago in the NPC and the Highlanders in the Super 14, moving north in 2004 to play for Waikato and the Chiefs. He is 1.75m tall and weighs 95 kg. He was New Zealand's Super 12 Player of the Year in 1999. After meeting in 2005 Kelleher began a high profile relationship with pornography star Kaylani Lei, which ended in June 2006.

Kelleher had signed a contract to play for Agen in the Top 14 after the 2007 Rugby World Cup;Cain, Nick (2007-04-29). "Player exodus threatens world order". The Sunday Times (London). Retrieved 2007-04-30. however, the club's relegation to the second-level Rugby Pro D2 after the 2006–07 Top 14 season caused the contract to be cancelled. Kelleher went on to sign with traditional Top 14 powers Toulouse, effective with the end of the Rugby World Cup. He won the "Bouclier de Brennus" (the French Rugby Union Title) in the 2007–08 Top 14 season with Stade Toulousain, and was elected by the Top 14 players as the season's best player.

In 2010, he was selected in the French Barbarians squad to play Tonga on 26 November.

Kelleher scoring a try for Toulouse against Biarritz

He is known as an unpredictable and unorthodox halfback, with his speed and strength, sometimes preferring to run with the ball and make line-breaks rather than passing the ball after rucks and mauls.

Byron Kelleher is a close friend of the Prince and Princess of Monaco.^[1] He was one of the guests at the couple's wedding in July 2011.^[2]

References

↑ "Le prince Albert évoque l'importance du circuit de Monaco en F1 (interview)" (in (French)). leJDD.fr. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
↑ "Byron Kelleher Pictures - Monaco Royal Wedding - The Religious Wedding Ceremony". Zimbio. Retrieved 2013-12-01.

External links

v t e New Zealand squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup Fourth Place

Forwards	Blowers Brooke Dowd Feek Hammett Hoeft Meeuws Mika Jones Kronfeld Maxwell Oliver Randell (c) Robertson Thorne Willis

Backs	Alatini Brown Cullen Duggan Gibson Ieremia Kelleher Lomu Marshall Mehrtens Osborne Spencer Umaga Wilson

Coach	Hart

v t e New Zealand squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup Third Place

Forwards	Braid Collins Flynn Hammett Hewett Hoeft Holah Jack McCaw Mealamu Meeuws Somerville So'oialo Thorn Thorne (c) Williams

Backs	Atiga Carter Devine Howlett Kelleher MacDonald Marshall Mauger Muliaina Nonu Ralph Rokocoko Spencer Umaga

Coach	Mitchell

v t e New Zealand squad – 2006 Tri Nations

Forwards	Collins Eaton Hayman Hore Jack McCaw (c) Masoe Mealamu Oliver Rawlinson Somerville So'oialo Thorne Tialata Williams Woodcock

Backs	Carter Cowan Gear Hamilton Howlett Kelleher McAlister MacDonald Mauger Muliaina Rokocoko Sivivatu Toeava Tuitupou Weepu

Coach	Henry

v t e New Zealand squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Collins Hayman Hore Jack Lauaki Masoe McCaw (c) Mealamu Oliver Robinson Somerville So'oialo Thorne Tialata Williams Woodcock

Backs	Carter Ellis Evans Howlett Kelleher Leonard MacDonald Mauger McAlister Muliaina Rokocoko Sivivatu Smith Toeava

Coach	Henry

v t e Stade Français squad

Forwards	Attoub Bonfils (fr) Burban Chabert Chollon de Malmanche Flanquart Frou (fr) Guillemain LaValla Lyons Missoup Mostert Papé Parisse Rabadan Sempéré Slimani Tetaz Tomiki (fr) van Zyl Wright Zhvania

Backs	Arias Bézy Bonneval Camara (fr) Contepomi Danty Doumayrou Dupuy Fainifo Fillol Plisson Porical Rodríguez Sackey Sinzelle (fr) Turinui Vuidravuwalu Warwick Williams

Coach	Pool-Jones Laussucq Auradou

Persondata
Name	Kelleher, Byron
Alternative names
Short description	New Zealand rugby union player
Date of birth	(1976-12-03) December 3, 1976
Place of birth	Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Date of death
Place of death

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