Shane Williams

Shane Williams is a Welsh former rugby union player, born in 1977, who is most famous for his long tenure as a wing for the Ospreys and the Wales national team, and who also played scrum-half on occasion. He is Wales's record try scorer and fourth on the international list of leading rugby union test try scorers. He was named World Rugby Player of the Year in 2008, was appointed MBE in 2012 for services to rugby, and was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2016. He finished his playing days in Japan with Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars and later worked as a presenter and pundit for S4C, BBC, ITV and Channel 4.