Shane Williams
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"Shane Mark Williams" Order of the British Empire/MBE is a Wales/Welsh rugby union player most famous for his long and successful tenure as a Wing (rugby union)/wing for the Ospreys (rugby team)/Ospreys and the Wales national rugby union team/Wales national team. He can also play Scrum-half (rugby union)/scrum-half. Williams is the record try scorer for Wales, and is third on the international list of leading rugby union test try scorers behind Daisuke Ohata and David Campese. He is Wales' most capped winger.

In 2008, Williams was selected as the IRB Player of the Year.

Since his retirement from international rugby in 2012, Williams has worked as a presenter on S4C's Six Nations Championship/Six Nations rugby programme Y Clwb Rygbi Rhyngwladol., and as a pundit on BBC broadcasts as well as third party shows such as "Inside Welsh Rugby", commenting on the grassroots of Welsh rugby. Williams was selected to the Barbarian F.C./Barbarians squad that played Wales in June 2012. It was originally planned to be his last appearance as a player, but he shortly thereafter signed a one-year contract to play in Japan with Mitsubishi Dynaboars in June 2012. Williams was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to rugby.

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