Quenton Harold Leach (20 August 1972 – 7 April 2020) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played in the

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(AFL) for the Fremantle Dockers between

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and

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. He was drafted from

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in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) as a foundation selection in the 1994 AFL Draft and played mainly as a defender. He played for Marist Football Club in Churchlands in his junior career before being signed to Claremont. Leach played most of his football in the backline, but is best remembered for kicking a goal after the siren to win a game against Brisbane in

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. Fremantle were behind by one point when Leach took a mark about 30 metres from goal, just seconds before the siren sounded to end the game. His kick after the siren went straight through the goals and Fremantle won the game by 5 points. In November 2016, Leach revealed that he had testicular cancer. In July 2017, it was reported that two rounds of chemotherapy had been successful in treating the cancer. However, in April 2020, Leach died from the cancer.

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* * 1972 births Fremantle Football Club players Claremont Football Club players 2020 deaths Deaths from testicular cancer Australian rules footballers from Perth, Western Australia People educated at Newman College, Perth Subiaco Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub

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