Shin Hasegawa

For the Japanese Olympic rower, see Shin Hasegawa (rowing).

Shin Hasegawa

Date of birth	(1972-03-31) 31 March 1972
Place of birth	Kyoto, Japan
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	102 kg (225 lb)
School	Higashiyama High School
University	Chuo University
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop, Hooker Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1991-1994 Chuo University Rugby Football Club () Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1994-2007 Suntory () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1997-2003 Japan 40 (5) Coaching career Years Team 2007-2014 2015-current Suntory Sungoliath Yamaha Júbilo (forwards coach)

Shin Hasegawa (長谷川慎, Hasegawa Shin) (born 31 March 1972 in Kyoto) is a Japanese former rugby union player who played as prop and hooker. Currently forwards coach of Yamaha Júbilo.

Career

Hasegawa started to play rugby at the age of 4. Until then, he played as hooker, but when he played for Higashiyama High School rugby team he played prop in Hanazono. At Chuo University RFC, he returned to play as hooker. After graduating from university, Hasegawa was part of a Kantō region representative team which toured New Zealand in 1995. His first cap for Japan was on 29 June 1997, against Hong Kong in Tokyo, where he played as a replacement flanker. Hasegawa was also called up by the then-national coach Seiji Hirao to play for Japan in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, where he played all the three pool stage matches in the tournament. He also played for Japan in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, playing all the four matches in the tournament. His last cap for Japan was against United States, in Gosford, on 27 October 2003. From 1995, after his graduation from Chuo University, he joined Suntory club, with which he won the Japan Company Rugby Football Championship in 1997 and 1998, as well the All-Japan Rugby Football Championship in 2000 and 2002. He retired in 2007 and became a forwards coach initially for Suntory and later for Yamaha Jubilo.

External links

• Shin Hasegawa at ESPNscrum