Mark Lawrence (born 16 June 1965, Standerton)[1] is an international rugby union referee from South Africa. He refereed his first international test match, in 2000, and was chosen to officiate at both the 2003 Rugby World Cup[2] and 2007 Rugby World Cup[3] acting as a touch judge and a TMO in both competitions. He refereed the 2007 Currie Cup Final between the Free State Cheetahs and the Golden Lions,.[4] He also refereed the 2008 Super 14 Final between the Crusaders and the Waratahs.[5]
| Date of birth | June 16, 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Standerton | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 186 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 | |||||||||||||||||||
| School | Highbury Primary School Beachwood High School | |||||||||||||||||||
| University | Technikon Witwatersrand | |||||||||||||||||||
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In September 2011, he announced his retirement from test rugby to concentrate on coaching emerging referees.[6]
References
edit- ^ "2003 Rugby World Cup Officials". Archived from the original on 9 February 2009.
- ^ "Provisional Rugby World Cup 2003 referees panel". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
- ^ "2007 Rugby World Cup referees and touch judges named". Archived from the original on 7 October 2008.
- ^ "Currie Cup finals". Archived from the original on 24 October 2008.
- ^ "2008 Super 14 final".
- ^ "Mark Lawrence announces retirement from Test refereeing". South African Rugby Union. 12 September 2011. Archived from the original on 6 June 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
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