Grant Gilchrist

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Grant Gilchrist
Rugby union career
Full name	Grant Stuart Gilchrist
Date of birth	(1990-08-09) 9 August 1990
Place of birth	Stirling, Scotland
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight	119 kg (18 st 10 lb)
School	Lornshill Academy
Playing career
Position	Lock
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Alloa RFC Stirling County RFC
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2011-	Edinburgh	56	(5)
correct as of 20 November 2013.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2012- 2009–10 2008-2009	Scotland Scotland u20 Scotland u19	4 8 8	(0) (0) (0)
correct as of 24 November 2013.

Grant Gilchrist (born 9 August 1990) is a Scottish rugby union player who plays for Edinburgh Rugby in the RaboDirect Pro12, he plays at lock. He has represented Scotland at U18, U19, U20 levels and more recently got his first full cap for Scotland against France in the 2013 RBS Six Nations at the Stade de France, aged 22.

Background

Grant was schooled at Lornshill Academy, and played with Alloa RFC before moving on to Stirling County RFC.

He was an Elite Development player, but was unable to make an appearance for Edinburgh until a year after joining due to injury, following a stint in New Zealand as part of the John Macphail Scholarship, he has since become a regular at Murrayfield with almost 50 appearances in the 2012/2013 season. He made his debut for Edinburgh in their 34-13 win over Cardiff Blues in September 2011.

He currently lives in Edinburgh with his girlfriend Chloe, soon to have a pug called Brian. Grant often says a large part of his rugby success was down to the extreme hard work and 'graft' he put in whilst training at Stirling University gym with fellow rugby players Jason Hill and Danny Gilmour.

External links

v t e Edinburgh Rugby squad

Forwards	Atkins Basilaia Blaauw Coman Cox Cross Denton Dickinson du Preez Ford Gilchrist Grant Hilterbrand Lawrie Leonardi Lutui McInally Nel Niven Parker Rennie van der Westhuizen Walker

Backs	Atiga Beard Bezuidenhout Black Brown Cuthbert De Luca Dominguez Fife Francis Hart Hunter Kennedy Jones Laidlaw Leck Leonard Scott Strauss Tonks Visser Walker

Coach	Alan Solomons

Persondata
Name	Gilchrist, Grant
Alternative names
Short description	Rugby player
Date of birth	9 August 1990
Place of birth	Stirling, Scotland
Date of death
Place of death

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