Nigel Colin Holt (born 21 November 1961) is an Australian former
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 ...
international.
Holt was born in the rural Queensland town of
Winton and attended
Anglican Church Grammar School
The Anglican Church Grammar School (ACGS), formerly the Church of England Grammar School and commonly referred to as Churchie, is an independent, Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican, Day school, day and boarding school for boys, located in ...
in Brisbane. His mother Judy served on
Redland City Council
Redland City, also known as the Redlands and formerly known as Redland Shire, is a Local government in Australia, local government area (LGA) and a part of Brisbane, Greater Brisbane in South East Queensland, Australia. With a population of 159 ...
and during the 1970s established the shire's first convenience store.
An imposing lock, Holt toured New Zealand with Queensland in 1982 and the following year gained a
Wallabies
A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and som ...
call up for the
tour of Italy and France, as a back up for
David Hillhouse
David William Hillhouse (born 13 July 1955) is an Australian former rugby union international.
Born in Brisbane and educated at Anglican Church Grammar School, Hillhouse was a second-row forward, regarded as a line-out specialist due to his exc ...
and
Steve Williams. Neither of those players were named on the
1984 tour of Fiji and Holt was first choice lock for the one-off Test in Suva, which the Wallabies won 16–3. He kept his place in the Wallabies squad for that year's famed
1984 tour of Britain and Ireland, but didn't add to his solitary Test cap.
See also
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List of Australia national rugby union players
List of Australia national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Australia national rugby union team.
Note that the "position" column lists the position at which the player made his Test debut, not necessarily the posit ...
References
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1961 births
Living people
Australian rugby union players
Australia international rugby union players
People educated at Anglican Church Grammar School
People from Central West Queensland
Rugby union players from Queensland
Rugby union locks
Queensland rugby union team players
20th-century Australian sportsmen