Full name | Impi Brecher Visser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 30 May 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pongola, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 94 kg (207 lb; 14 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Hoërskool Ermelo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of Pretoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Men's rugby sevens | ||
Representing South Africa | ||
Commonwealth Games | ||
2022 Birmingham | Team competition |
Impi Brecher Visser (born rugby sevens player for the South Africa national team in the World Rugby Sevens Series.[1] In sevens he usually plays as a forward, but is a centre in fifteen-a-side rugby.[2]
30 May 1995) is a South AfricanVisser also played rugby union for the Blue Bulls at youth level, initially as a scrum-half before making a move to the centre. He played for the UP Tuks, university side in the Varsity Cup, winning the competition in the 2017 season and also going on representing the Varsity Cup dream team during that same year in an exhibition match against the Junior Springboks.
"Impi", a zulu word, meaning a group of warriors, is not a nickname, but his given name.[2] He has a degree in mechanical engineering.[2]
In 2022, He was part of the South African team that won their second Commonwealth Games gold medal in Birmingham.[3][4][5][6]