| Full name | John Noel Pallant | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1944-12-24) 24 December 1944 (age 80) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nottingham, England | ||||||||||||||||
| School | High Pavement Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||
| University | Loughborough College | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | School teacher | ||||||||||||||||
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John Noel Pallant (born 24 December 1944) is an English former international rugby union player.
Pallant, a native of Nottingham, was educated at High Pavement Grammar School and won an All England schoolboy hammer-throwing title in 1961, setting a competition record with his throw of 159 ft 3+1⁄2 in (48.552 m).
A number eight, Pallant played his rugby for Nottingham and Loughborough Students. He gained three England caps in the 1967 Five Nations Championship, debuting against Ireland at Lansdowne Road.
Pallant was Director of Sport at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood.
See also
References
- Botherway, Nigel (9 September 2007). "Caught in Time". The Times.
- "Pallant lowers hammer record to give Notts. a great boost". The Guardian Journal. 22 July 1961.
- "Stern Task For England In Dublin". Leicester Mercury. 11 February 1967.
- "John Pallant To Leave Nottingham". Nottingham Evening Post. 22 January 1968.
External links
- John Pallant at ESPNscrum
- John Pallant at England Rugby
- 1944 births
- Living people
- English rugby union players
- England international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Nottingham
- Rugby union number eights
- Loughborough Students RUFC players
- Nottingham R.F.C. players
- People educated at Nottingham High Pavement Grammar School
- Alumni of Loughborough College
- English male hammer throwers
- British male hammer throwers
- 20th-century English sportsmen