Stephan Dippenaar | |
Birth Date: | 1988 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Moorreesburg, South Africa |
School: | Paul Roos Gymnasium |
Ru Position: | Outside-Centre / Winger |
Super14: | Bulls |
Super14years: | 2008–2011 |
Super14caps: | 21 |
Super14points: | (5) |
Super14update: | 28 March 2015 |
Ru Province: | Blue Bulls |
Ru Provinceyears: | 2008–2011 |
Ru Provincecaps: | 32 |
Ru Provincepoints: | (30) |
Ru Provinceupdate: | 28 March 2015 |
Ru Nationalyears: | 2008 2012–present |
Ru Nationalteam: | South Africa Under-20 South Africa Sevens |
Ru Nationalcaps: | 2 |
Ru Nationalpoints: | (5) |
Ru Ntupdate: | 28 March 2015 |
Stephanus Christiaan Dippenaar (born 3 January 1988) is a South African rugby union footballer. He currently represents the South Africa national sevens team in the IRB Sevens World Series.[1] Between 2008 and 2011 he played for the Bulls in Super Rugby and the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup.
Dippenaar represented South Africa's under-19 team at the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship in Ireland. In 2008, he played for South Africa's under-20 team at the Junior World Championship in Wales.[2] He made his international sevens debut for the South African sevens team in 2012 at the Wellington Sevens.[3] [4]
In 2013, he was included in the squad for the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Dippenaar was injured at the 2015 Hong Kong Sevens and was replaced by Ruhan Nel.[5] [6] He had just recovered from an injury he sustained at the Gold Coast Sevens at the beginning of the series.[7]
On 17 October 2017, Dippenaar announced his retirement from rugby on Twitter.