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18 st 2 lb)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #b0c4de;color:inherit;">Rugby union career</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox infobox-3cols-child infobox-table"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><b>Position(s)</b></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data role" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Flanker_(rugby_union)" title="Flanker (rugby union)">Blindside Flanker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><b>Current team</b></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data org" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Dragons_RFC" title="Dragons RFC">Dragons RFC</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e0ffff;color:inherit;">Senior career</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><b>Years</b></th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <b>Team</b></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> <b>Apps</b></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> <b>(Points)</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"></th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Ebbw_Vale_RFC" title="Ebbw Vale RFC">Ebbw Vale</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> </td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> ()</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2007–2013</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Dragons_RFC" title="Dragons RFC">Newport Gwent Dragons</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 85</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (15)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2008–2009</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Pontypool_RFC" title="Pontypool RFC">Pontypool</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 4</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (0)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2013–2014</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Racing_M%C3%A9tro_92" class="mw-redirect" title="Racing Métro 92">Racing Métro</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 20</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (0)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2014–2023</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Ospreys_(rugby_union)" title="Ospreys (rugby union)">Ospreys</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 89</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (10)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2023–</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Dragons_RFC" title="Dragons RFC">Dragons</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 89</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (15)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="infobox-full-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold; color: #555; text-align: left;">Correct as of 11:51, 6 February 2024 (UTC)</span></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e0ffff;color:inherit;">International career</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><b>Years</b></th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <b>Team</b></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> <b>Apps</b></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> <b>(Points)</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">–</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Wales_national_under-20_rugby_union_team" title="Wales national under-20 rugby union team">Wales U20</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> </td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2009–</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Wales_national_rugby_union_team" title="Wales national rugby union team">Wales</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 72</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (5)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/2013_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_Australia" title="2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia">2013</a></th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/British_%26_Irish_Lions" title="British & Irish Lions">British & Irish Lions</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 3</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (0)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="infobox-full-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold; color: #555; text-align: left;">Correct as of 9 May 2023</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p>  </p><p><b>Dan Lydiate</b> (born 18 December 1987) is a <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> international rugby union player. A <a href="/wiki/Flanker_(rugby_union)" title="Flanker (rugby union)">flanker</a>, Lydiate was raised in <a href="/wiki/Llandrindod_Wells" title="Llandrindod Wells">Llandrindod Wells</a> and is a product of the <a href="/wiki/Dragons_(rugby_union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragons (rugby union)">Newport Gwent Dragons</a> academy. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dan_Lydiate&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The younger of two boys born to English docker John Lydiate at <a href="/wiki/Salford_Royal_Hospital" title="Salford Royal Hospital">Hope Hospital</a>, their Welsh mother Lynne raised them in <a href="/wiki/Salford,_Greater_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Salford, Greater Manchester">Salford, Greater Manchester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MEN686302_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MEN686302-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After their father suffered an injury, the family moved to <a href="/wiki/Llandrindod_Wells" title="Llandrindod Wells">Llandrindod Wells</a> when Dan was aged 4, so that their father could work on his father-in-law's 202-hectare (500-acre) sheep farm in the <a href="/wiki/Cambrian_Mountains" title="Cambrian Mountains">Cambrian Mountains</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Older brother Jack represented Wales colleges at rugby.<sup id="cite_ref-MEN686302_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MEN686302-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dan and Jack have two older brothers John (also born at Hope Hospital) and Steven and an older sister Gillian from their father's first marriage. While growing up in <a href="/wiki/Powys" title="Powys">Powys</a>, Lydiate attended Llanbister Primary School and <a href="/wiki/Llandrindod_High_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Llandrindod High School">Llandrindod High School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dan_Lydiate&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was an ever-present member of the Wales Under 20 back row along with <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Evans_(rugby_player)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewis Evans (rugby player)">Lewis Evans</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Harris_(rugby_player)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Harris (rugby player)">James Harris</a> for their Six Nations campaign in 2006/7 and progressed to the Dragons senior side at the end of that season. Early in the 2007/08 season he suffered a serious neck injury in the Heineken Cup Group match away to Perpignan which ruled him out for the rest of the season, with doubts raised as to whether or not he would ever play again.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 October 2009 Lydiate was named in the <a href="/wiki/Wales_national_rugby_union_team" title="Wales national rugby union team">Wales national squad</a> for the November 2009 international series, making his debut as a second-half replacement against Argentina on 21 November 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the withdrawal of captain <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Jones" title="Ryan Jones">Ryan Jones</a> from the Wales squad to face Australia in the final Autumn International, Lydiate made his first test match start at flanker on 28 November 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was named in the Wales squad for the <a href="/wiki/2010_Six_Nations_Championship" title="2010 Six Nations Championship">2010 Six Nations Championship</a>, however did not play a single game. He then broke into the Welsh first XV in the autumn internationals of that year, starting against Australia, New Zealand and Fiji as well as being named in the team to face South Africa before withdrawing with a calf injury. He won the Man of the Match award against the Fijians, where he wore the Number 7 jersey for the first time. </p><p>He played every match of Wales' <a href="/wiki/2011_Six_Nations_Championship" title="2011 Six Nations Championship">2011 Six Nations Championship</a> campaign as well as all four warm-up matches. In August 2011 he was named in the Wales squad for the <a href="/wiki/2011_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2011 Rugby World Cup">2011 Rugby World Cup</a> in New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played in Wales' opening two games against South Africa and Samoa, but missed the pool games against Namibia and Fiji with an ankle injury that lead to him infamously waking up to ice his leg every hour. It paid off, and he played a key role in Wales' quarter-final win over Ireland and then subsequent losses to France and Australia. He finished second on the tournament's top-tacklers, behind only Wales and Dragons teammate <a href="/wiki/Toby_Faletau" class="mw-redirect" title="Toby Faletau">Toby Faletau</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2012_Six_Nations_Championship" title="2012 Six Nations Championship">2012 Six Nations Championship</a>, Lydiate received the Player of the Tournament award after featuring in every game bar the opener against Ireland and receiving man of the match awards against Scotland and France.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2013 Lydiate was named in the squad for the <a href="/wiki/2013_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_Australia" title="2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia">2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lydiate left <a href="/wiki/Dragons_(rugby_union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragons (rugby union)">Newport Gwent Dragons</a> at the end of the 2012–13 season and joined the <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>-based club <a href="/wiki/Racing_M%C3%A9tro_92" class="mw-redirect" title="Racing Métro 92">Racing Métro 92</a>. </p><p>On 30 October 2014 it was announced Lydiate would be leaving <a href="/wiki/Racing_Metro" class="mw-redirect" title="Racing Metro">Racing Metro</a> and returning to Wales on a dual contract between the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Rugby_Union" title="Welsh Rugby Union">Welsh Rugby Union</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Introduction_of_regional_rugby_union_teams_in_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Introduction of regional rugby union teams in Wales">Welsh region</a>, on 7 December 2014 this was announced to be <a href="/wiki/Ospreys_(rugby_union)" title="Ospreys (rugby union)">Ospreys</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lydiate was a part of the Welsh team for the <a href="/wiki/2015_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2015 Rugby World Cup">2015 Rugby World Cup</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_tries">International tries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dan_Lydiate&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: International tries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Try</th> <th>Opponent</th> <th>Location</th> <th>Venue</th> <th>Competition</th> <th>Date</th> <th>Result </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" 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