Philip Burger’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African rugby union player
Is

Athlete

Rugby union player

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South Africa

Type

Sports

Gender male
Birth 28 August 1980, Pretoria
Age: 39 years

Philip Burger (born 28 August 1980 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a rugby union player.
He is a Springbok Rugby Sevens player, and represented South Africa at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. He was the top try scorer at the IRB Sevens tournament in George, South Africa in 2006. He is the son of 3-times capped Bok, Thys Burger.
Burger played Currie Cup rugby for the Free State Cheetahs from 2005 to 2007. In 2006 he was the top try scorer in the Currie Cup competition. Burger won the Currie Cup with the Cheetahs in 2005 and in 2006 (when the Cheetahs shared it with the Bulls).
He played Super 14 Rugby for the Cheetahs in 2007. He is in the current squad for the French Club USA Perpignan, in the Heineken Cup and Top 14, and was part of the title winning squad in 2008/09.

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