Ed Fairhurst

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Ed Fairhurst
Rugby union career
Full name	Edward Fairhurst
Date of birth	(1979-05-07) 7 May 1979
Place of birth	Regina, Saskatchewan
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	93 kg (14 st 9 lb)
Playing career
Position	Scrum-half / Fly-half / Fullback
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2006-2007 2007-2009	Cardiff Blues Cornish Pirates	9 49	(0) (20)
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2001-2012	Canada	57	(46)
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
	Canada

Edward Fairhurst (born May 7, 1979, in Regina, Saskatchewan^[1]) is a Canadian international rugby union player. He is currently playing with the UBC Old Boys Ravens in the BC Premier League and the BC Bears in the Canadian Rugby Championship.

Fairhurst plays as a scrum half but has also played outside half and fullback for his country. He made his debut for the Canada national team in May 2001 in a match against the USA. He was then selected to the national squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia.

In 2006 Fairhurst signed with the Cardiff Blues from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He would play a year at Cardiff before moving to the south-west of England to suit up for the Cornish Pirates for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons. Fairhurst returned to the Rugby World Cup in 2007 in France.

As of 2009, Fairhurst works as an Investment Advisor for RBC Dominion Securities in Vancouver, British Columbia.

On July 8, 2011, it was announced that Fairhurst will represent Canada at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.^[2]

In October 2012, Fairhurst announced his retirement from international rugby with 57 international appearances;^[3] the most by any Canadian scrum half.

Notes

v t e Canada squad – 2011 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Buydens Carpenter Cudmore Dala Erichsen Franklin Hamilton Hotson Kleeberger Kyne Marshall O'Toole Riordan Sinclair Tiedemann Walsh

Backs	Evans Fairhurst Hearn Hirayama J. Mackenzie P. Mackenzie Monro Paris Pritchard Scholz Smith Trainor van der Merwe White

Coach	Crowley

v t e Canada squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Biddle Burak Carpenter Cudmore (injured) Franklin Jackson (rep) James Kleeberger D. Pletch M. Pletch Riordan Snow Stephen Tait Thiel Webb Yukes

Backs	Culpan Daypuck Fairhurst Hirayama Mensah-Coker Monro Pritchard Pyke Smith Spicer Trenkel van der Merwe Weingart Williams

Coach	Suggitt

v t e Canada squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Banks Charron Cooke Cudmore Douglas Abrams Jackson James Knaggs Lawson Reid Snow Thiel Tkachuk van Staveren Yukes

Backs	Barker Cannon Di Girolamo Fairhurst Fauth Fyffe King Lougheed Pritchard Stanley Witkowski Ross Smith Williams

Coach	Clark

Persondata
Name	Fairhurst, Edward
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian rugby union player
Date of birth	May 7, 1979
Place of birth	Regina, Saskatchewan
Date of death
Place of death

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