Gavin Whittaker (13 January 1970 – 6 January 2017) was an Australian professional
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
footballer who played for
Canterbury-Bankstown and the
Gold Coast.
Background
Whittaker was born on 13 January 1970 in
Pittsworth town in Queensland district of Australia.
Playing career
Whittaker made his first grade debut for Canterbury in Round 16, 1993 against Balmain. Whittaker played with the club up until the end of 1995 but was not included in the premiership winning side that defeated Manly.
Whittaker joined the Gold Coast to play 31 games from 1996 to 1998.
His son, Shai Whittaker later played for representative teams from 2007 to 2013; such as the Gold Coast Titans U18's and Queensland U17's.
Whittaker died from
stomach cancer
Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a malignant tumor of the stomach. It is a cancer that develops in the Gastric mucosa, lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a numb ...
on 6 January 2017 at his home in
Parkwood, Queensland
Parkwood is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Parkwood had a population of 8,837 people.
Geography
Parkwood is about by road north-west of Southport.
The suburb is bounded by Napper Road to the north, Olsen ...
, a week before his 47th birthday.
References
External links
Bulldogs profile
1970 births
2017 deaths
Australian rugby league players
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players
Gold Coast Chargers players
20th-century Australian sportsmen
Rugby league props
Rugby league players from Queensland
Deaths from stomach cancer in Australia
Deaths from cancer in Queensland
People from Pittsworth, Queensland
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