Stefanus Johannes "Faan" Rautenbach (born 22 February 1976) is a former

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

footballer who played at prop for

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, and the . Rautenbach played 14 Tests for the

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including a try on debut against

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in 2002, ending with his last Test against

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in 2004. Rautenbach is known as a powerful scrummager.

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London Irish profile
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