Marius Visser (born 24 April 1982 in
Walvis Bay) is a
rugby union player for
Namibia and the heaviest player at the
2007 Rugby World Cup
The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 2 ...
at 140 kilograms. While due to play for the
Lyon team subsequent to the World Cup, he retired after the discovery of irreversible spinal problems.
[http://www.namibianrugby.com/ World Cup prop's career ended]
In 2009, he returned to the Namibian national team, apparently able to continue playing after earlier worries that injury ended his career.
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Player statistics
1982 births
Living people
Border Bulldogs players
Namibia international rugby union players
Namibian Afrikaner people
Namibian people of Dutch descent
Namibian rugby union players
Rugby union players from Walvis Bay
White Namibian people
Rugby union props
2007 Rugby World Cup players
2011 Rugby World Cup players
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