Chester Williams

Chester Williams, full name Chester Mornay Williams, was a South African rugby union player born in 1970 who played as a winger for the Springboks from 1993 to 2000. He is best known for the team that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in South Africa, in which he was the only black player; he scored four tries in the quarter-final and also played in the semi-final and final. At home he played for Western Province in the Currie Cup. After retiring he coached, including with the South Africa national rugby sevens team, the Uganda national team and the University of the Western Cape, and he was portrayed in the 2009 film Invictus. He died in 2019 at the age of 49.