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Birth name | Iain Robert Balshaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 18 April 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Blackburn, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 14 st 11 lb (94 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Stonyhurst College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iain Robert Balshaw, MBE (born 18 April 1979) is an English former rugby union player who played on the wing or at full back for Bath, Leeds Carnegie, Gloucester and Biarritz Olympique. He won 35 international caps for England between 2000 and 2008, and three for the British & Irish Lions in 2001. He was a member of the England squad that won the 2003 Rugby World Cup.