Stefan Terblanche

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Stefan Terblanche

Personal information

Date of birth

2 July 1975

Place of birth

Mossel Bay, South Africa

Height

1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)

Weight

95 kg (14 st 13 lb)

School(s) attended

Swellendam High School

Youth clubs

Years	Club
	Boland Cavaliers

Youth representative teams

Years	Team	Apps (points)
1996	South Africa U-21

Senior clubs*

Years	Club	Apps (points)
2003 ‐ 07 2011	Ospreys Ulster	87 16 (15)

Super Rugby

Provincial sides
1998 ‐ 03	Boland Cavaliers Natal Sharks	66 42 (161)
Super Rugby
2007 ‐	Sharks	122 (175)35t

Representative teams

1998 ‐

South Africa

37 (95)

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

Stefan Terblanche (born in Mossel Bay on 2 July 1975) is a South African rugby union player. He plays mostly at fullback also has the ability to play at centre or on the wing.

Career

Terblanche played in 37 tests for South Africa, scoring 19 tries, including a South African test record of four tries (equalled with Chester Williams and Pieter Rossouw) on debut against Ireland at Bloemfontein on 13 June 1998, which he later bettered by scoring a then record five tries against Italy on 19 June 1999.

Terblanche started his career under the tutelage of Nick Mallet at the Boland Cavaliers (66 caps). He made his debut in 1999 for the Natal Sharks and played for the Ospreys in Wales. Terblanche moved back to the Natal Sharks for the 2007 Currie Cup season in South Africa. He played his return game for the Durban-based franchise at Fullback and scored two tries and claimed man of the match in the Shark's 32–16 defeat over Western Province, the team who has won the Currie Cup title a record 32 times. This was also his 100th match played for the Sharks.

He is known as a great finisher—his test try per match ratio of 0.51 is among the highest in Springbok history and is significantly better than those of players like Carel du Plessis (0.33), Breyton Paulse (0.4) and Jean de Villiers (0.4), on par with current stars Jaque Fourie (0.5), Bryan Habana (0.57) and old legend Pieter Rossouw (0.48) but short of Ray Mordt (0.66 or two tries in every three tests), and Danie Gerber's (0.79) incredible scoring records. On 3 October 2007 it was announced that Terblanche had re-signed for the Natal Sharks on a one year contract. In 2010, Terblanche was appointed captain of the Natal Sharks.

On 1 November 2011 he signed a 3 month contract with Ulster rugby to provide cover for Jared Payne who ruptured his achilles in the PRO12 match against Treviso on 7 October.

National & International Representation

Craven Week: South Western District 1991–93
Boland U23 1995
Boland Cavaliers (66 caps)
Natal Sharks 1999–2007 (101 caps) as at 17/07/2007
Ospreys 2003–07 (87 apps) as at 03/10/2007
South Africa U21 1996
South African Barbarians 1996
South Africa 1998–2003 (37 caps)
British Barbarians 2000–01

Other Achievements

Holds Boland Cavaliers record for most tries in a season (20 in 1997)
Holds Boland Cavaliers record for career tries (49)
Equal top try scorer in 1998 Super 12 with 10 tries.
Tri-Nations winner with South Africa 1998
Member of Ospreys squad winning the 2006–07 Celtic League
Currie Cup winner with Natal Sharks 2008
Currie Cup winner with Natal Sharks 2010

External links

v t e South Africa squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup Third Place

Forwards	Andrews Boome Drotské du Randt Erasmus Garvey Kruger Otto Leonard le Roux C. Rossouw Skinstad van den Berg A. Venter Visagie Vos

Backs	de Beer Fleck Honiball Montgomery Julies Kayser Molatana Muller Paulse P. Rossouw Swanepoel Terblanche van der Westhuizen B. Venter

Coach	Mallett

v t e South Africa squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Bands Bezuidenhout Boome Botha Burger Coetzee Krige (c) Matfield Rautenbach Rossouw Santon Scholtz Sephaka Smit Smith van Niekerk

Backs	Barry Delport Fourie Greeff Hougaard de Kock Koen Loubscher Muller Paulse Terblanche van der Westhuizen van der Westhuyzen Willemse

Coach	Straeuli

v t e Sharks Super Rugby squad

Forwards	Alberts Botes Bresler Burden Chadwick M. Coetzee Cooper Daniel Dell Deysel B. du Plessis J. du Plessis du Toit Hadebe Herbst Hewitt Janse van Rensburg Kankowski J. Marais P. Marais Mienie Minnie Mtawarira Mtembu van der Merwe

Backs	Bosman A. Coetzee James Jordaan Lambie Lindeque Ludik McLeod Meyer Mvovo Ndungane Pietersen Reinach Robinson Sithole Steyn van Tonder Viljoen Whitehead

Coach	Plumtree

v t e Ulster Rugby squad

Forwards	Annett Best Herring Afoa Black Court Fitzpatrick Lutton Macklin McAllister Ross McComb Muller Stevenson Tuohy Diack Doyle Ferris Henderson Henry McComish Williams Wilson

Backs	Heaney P. Marshall Pienaar Porter Jackson McKinney Cave Farrell L. Marshall Olding Wallace Allen Bowe Cochrane Gilroy McIlwaine Trimble Andrew Nelson Payne

Coach	Anscombe

Persondata
Name	Terblanche, Stefan
Alternative names
Short description	South African rugby union player
Date of birth	2 July 1975
Place of birth	Mossel Bay, South Africa
Date of death
Place of death

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