Didier Camberabero (born 9 January 1961), is a former French international

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player. He played as fly half.

Biography

Camberabero is a son of the former international,

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, and the nephew of Lilian Camberabero, two brothers who took part in the first

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won by France. His brother, Gilles, is also an outstanding rugby player. Didier is the third highest point scorer for the French international team, with 354 points in 36 tests match, behind Christophe Lamaison (380 pts in 37 tests) and

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(367 points in 43 tests). Didier also previously set a world record for the greatest number of points on only one match in team of France: 30, against Zimbabwe in 1987. This still stands as a French national record, although the world record has now been surpassed by Simon Culhane (45 points, against Japan in 1995). With his father Guy, Didier is tied the French record of the number of successful conversions on a match: 9 in 1987, against Zimbabwe. He held the world record for the number of successful

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s in a single match, 3 in 1990 until

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broke this when he kicked 5 against England in the 1999 Rugby World Cup quarter final. Camberabero felt the intrusion of the Cold War in the 1984 FIRA Championships.Cotton, p29 As a member of the French armed forces, the Polish rugby body tried to prevent him playing , along with

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and the

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centre

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, because they were supposed to constitute a security risk to the Communist Regime.

Statistics

* 36 caps for France, between 1982 and 1991 * Played in the final of the

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in 1987 * Winner of the Five Nations tournament in 1983

References

Sources

* Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) ''The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records''. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. 1961 births Living people Sportspeople from Valence, Drôme French rugby union players Rugby union fly-halves France international rugby union players AS Béziers Hérault players FC Grenoble players USA Perpignan players {{France-rugbyunion-bio-stub