Troy Coker (born 30 May 1965 in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...

) is a former

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n international

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player. He played as a number 8 and was capped 27 times for

between 1987 and 1997. He was a member of the winning Australian squad at the

1991 Rugby World Cup The 1991 Rugby World Cup () was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France: at the time, the five European countries who participated in the Six Nations Championship, Five Na ...

and was also in the squad at the 1987 and 1995 Rugby World Cup. He is married and has two daughters, Ella and Ava.

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1965 births Living people Rugby union players from Brisbane Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Australian expatriate rugby union players in England Oxford University RFC players Rugby union number eights 1987 Rugby World Cup players 1991 Rugby World Cup players 1995 Rugby World Cup players ACT Brumbies players Queensland rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-1960s-stub