| Birth name | Alexander Widiker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 April 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kustanay, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 110 kg (17 st 5 lb; 243 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Widiker (born 27 April 1982)[1] is a German international rugby union player, playing for Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and, formerly, the German national rugby union team.[2]
Widiker played in the 2011 and 2012 German championship final for Heidelberger RK, which the club both won, with Widiker scoring a try in the 2011 game.
Widiker is one of the few German players who has successfully played abroad. From 2006 to 2010, he played for the RC Orléans in the Fédérale 1, alongside two other German internationals, the brothers Matthieu and Guillaume Franke.[3] In his last season with RCO he was also the team's captain.[1]