Heino Bezuidenhout (born 13 March 1997) is a South African

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 ...

player. His regular position is

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in fifteens rugby and as a forward in sevens rugby.

Career

In 2015, he was named captain of the South Africa Rugby Sevens for the

2015 Commonwealth Youth Games The 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games, officially known as the V Commonwealth Youth Games, and commonly known as Samoa 2015, was the fifth Commonwealth Youth Games which started in the year 2000. It was held from 5 to 11 September, 2015 in Apia, the c ...

. He represented the in the Under-19 and Under-21 Provincial Championships in 2016. The following year, he was selected in the

Varsity Cup Varsity Cup is the collective name for four South African rugby union competitions involving the top rugby playing universities in the country. It was launched in 2008, with eight teams participating in the Varsity Cup competition and each univers ...

squad. He made his debut for the South Africa Sevens team at the

2018 Hong Kong Sevens The 2018 Hong Kong Sevens was the 43rd edition of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, and the seventh tournament of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series. The performance from this tournament determined the first fourteen seedings of the 2018 Rug ...

, where South Africa finished third.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bezuidenhout, Heino 1997 births Living people South African rugby union players South Africa international rugby sevens players People from Roodepoort Rugby union centres Rugby union players from Gauteng