Chris Clarkson

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Chris Clarkson
Personal information


Full name	Christopher Clarkson
Born	(1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 Leeds, England
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	81 kg (12 st 11 lb) ^[1]
Playing information
Position	Wing, Loose forward
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2010–	Leeds Rhinos	19	5	0	0	20

Chris Clarkson is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Leeds Rhinos of Super League.

Before joining the Rhinos, Chris a former pupil at Temple Moor, played for his local amateur side East Leeds. He has also won representative honours with Yorkshire and England at U17 level. Chris Clarkson was a new recruit for the Rhinos in 2006. A year later he became a regular in the Academy side and helped the Junior Academy side clinch the Championship when he was named in the starting line up for the win against St Helens in the Grand Final. He earned his place in the side after he had registered an impressive 9 tries in 21 appearances over the season.

In 2010 Chris made his Super League début for Leeds in the 10-17 defeat to Hull Kingston Rovers deputising for Ryan Hall. He showed his versatility, playing on the wing before following this up at centre in the following game against Wigan.

Clarkson played from the interchange bench for Leeds in the 2011 Challenge Cup final which was lost to Wigan.

References

↑ "Leeds Rhinos Players & Coaches 1st Team". web page. Leeds Rhinos. 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.

http://www.therhinos.co.uk/rugby/10477.php

External links

v t e Leeds Rhinos – current squad

1 Hardaker 2 Jones-Bishop 3 Watkins 4 Moon 5 Hall 6 McGuire 7 Burrow 8 Leuluai 9 Aiton 10 Peacock 11 Jones-Buchanan 12 Ablett 13 Sinfield 14 Ward 15 Delaney 16 Bailey 17 Kirke 18 Clarkson 19 Achurch 20 Briscoe 21 Sutcliffe 22 Keinhorst 23 Singleton 24 Foster 25 Yates Coach: McDermott

v t e Leeds Rhinos squad – 2011 Super League champions

1 Brent Webb 2 Ben Jones-Bishop 3 Zak Hardaker 4 Carl Ablett 5 Ryan Hall 6 Kevin Sinfield (c) 7 Danny McGuire 8 Kylie Leuluai 9 Danny Buderus 10 Jamie Peacock 11 Jamie Jones-Buchanan 12 Brett Delaney 13 Chris Clarkson 14 Rob Burrow 15 Ali Lauitiiti 16 Ryan Bailey 17 Ian Kirke Coach: Brian McDermott

v t e Leeds Rhinos squad – 2012 World Club Challenge winners

1 Brent Webb 2 Ben Jones-Bishop 3 Kallum Watkins 4 Zak Hardaker 5 Ryan Hall 6 Kevin Sinfield (c) 7 Danny McGuire 8 Kylie Leuluai 9 Rob Burrow 10 Jamie Peacock 11 Jamie Jones-Buchanan 12 Brett Delaney 13 Carl Ablett 14 Paul McShane 15 Darrell Griffin 16 Ryan Bailey 20 Chris Clarkson Coach: Brian McDermott

Persondata
Name	Clarkson, Chris
Alternative names
Short description	British rugby league player
Date of birth	7 April 1990
Place of birth	Leeds
Date of death
Place of death

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