Bismarck du Plessis
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| Full name | Bismarck Wilhelm du Plessis | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 22 May 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bethlehem, Free State, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 114 kg (251 lb; 17 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Grey College, Bloemfontein | ||||||||||||||||
| University | University of the Free State | ||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) |
Jannie du Plessis (brother) Tabbie du Plessis (brother) |
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| Position | Hooker | ||||||||||||||||
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| Provincial/State sides | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2003 2005–2015 |
Free State Cheetahs Sharks (Currie Cup) |
2 42 |
(0) (60) |
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Correct as of 26 October 2014
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| Super Rugby | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2005–2015 | Sharks | 131 | (100) |
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Correct as of 14 June 2015
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 2005 2007–2015 2007 2009 & 2013 2014–2015 |
South Africa Under-21 South Africa (test) South Africa (tour) Barbarians Springbok XV |
1 79 2 2 2 |
(0) (55) (0) (10) (10) |
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Correct as of 30 October 2015
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Bismarck Wilhelm du Plessis (born 22 May 1984) is a South African rugby union player, who plays for South Africa internationally and for Montpellier in the French Top 14. He played for the Free State Cheetahs in 2003, before moving to Durban in 2005 to spend the bulk of his career at the Sharks.
A native of the town of Bethlehem in the Free State province, Bismarck du Plessis made his debut for the Sharks in Super Rugby (then the Super 12) in 2005. As he plays hooker and played in the same team as South Africa's past captain, John Smit, for much of his career he had been a backup to Smit; however, this changed when Smit moved to tighthead prop. Before Smit's change of position, Du Plessis nonetheless played in Super Rugby and the Currie Cup whenever Smit was unavailable, and in 2007 was selected to play for South Africa in the Tri Nations Series. He made his debut for South Africa as a substitute in the same game against Australia in Sydney in which his older brother, Jannie, who was in the starting XV, also made his Springboks debut. The Du Plessis brothers became the 23rd set of brothers to earn caps for South Africa at rugby union.
Following an illness to Pierre Spies, Bismarck du Plessis was called into South Africa's squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup; his brother Jannie was a later addition to the squad, replacing BJ Botha, who injured a knee in South Africa's final pool match against the USA.
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