Full name | Vincent Anthony Mary Becker | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 9 October 1947 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
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Vincent Anthony Mary Becker (born 9 October 1947) is an Irish former sprinter and rugby union international.[1]
A product of Mungret College, Becker was a Lansdowne and Leinster winger, capped twice for Ireland in their winning 1974 Five Nations Championship campaign.[2] He had started his rugby union career as a scrum-half before transitioning to the wing, a position to which he brought considerable pace, as a two-time Irish national 100 metres champion.[3]