Thorsten Wiedemann (born 4 October 1985) is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Honours
  • 2.1 Club
  • 2.2 Personal
• 3 Stats
  • 3.1 Club
  • 3.2 National team
    • 3.2.1 European Nations Cup
    • 3.2.2 Friendlies & other compe*ions
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Wiedemann grew up in Heidelberg, playing rugby for the Heidelberger RK. He joined TSV Handschuhsheim for two seasons, alongside his coach, in August 2007. He spend some time in New Zealand in 2007 playing for the Hamilton Marist RFC.

He made his debut for Germany on 29 September 2007 in a friendly against Switzerland. He made his last game for Germany to date against Portugal on 21 February 2009. He was also part of the squad for the Russia game on 2 May 2009 but was not subs*uted in.

In the 2008–09 season, while playing for the TSV Handschuhsheim, he was the top-scorer in the Bundesliga with 212 points. He joined the Heidelberger RK for the 2009–10 season but emigrated to Australia during the winter break. He now plays for the Sunshine Coast Stingrays in Queensland Premier Rugby.

After two years in Australia Wiedemann rejoined Heidelberger RK for the 2012-13 Bundesliga season.

Honours

Club

• German rugby union cup
  • Winners: 2008
  • Runners-up: 2009

Personal

• Rugby-Bundesliga
  • Top scorer: 2008-09

Stats

Thorsten Wiedemann's personal statistics in club and international rugby:

Club

• As of 25 June 2012

National team

European Nations Cup

Friendlies & other compe*ions

• As of 18 March 2010

References

External links

• Thorsten Wiedemann at scrum.com
• (in German) Thorsten Wiedemann at totalrugby.de