Date of birth | 11 November 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Kyoto Sangyo University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daisuke Ohata (大畑大介, Ōhata Daisuke, born November 11, 1975) is a former Japanese rugby union player. He usually played on the wing, and sometimes at centre, for the Japanese national team. He made his name internationally as a speedy ace in the World Rugby Sevens Series (then known as the IRB World Sevens Series), and went on to become a regular member of the national team. He first played for Japan on November 9, 1996, and scored three tries that day. He is the leading rugby union test try scorer of all time. In November 2016, Ohata was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame at the opening ceremony for the Hall's first physical location in Rugby, Warwickshire.[2][3]