Full name | Raimundo Martínez Amar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 25 November 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (227 lb; 16 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raimundo Martínez Amar (born 25 November 1999) is a Chilean professional rugby union player who plays as a number eight for Super Rugby Americas club Selknam and the Chile national team. [1]
Martínez grew up in Santiago, where he played his rugby with the PWCC, before enjoying a spell in the CA Brive academy from 2019 to 2020. [2] [3]
Back in Chile, he played with Selknam in the newly founded Súper Liga Americana de Rugby. [4] He was part of the team that registered historical wins against the Argentinian Jaguares XV, [5] eventually reaching the final of the competition. [6]
Raimundo Martínez is a Chile international since 2018, as Los Cóndores had some historical results in Test matches, beating the likes of recent world cup qualified Russia in 2021. [7]
He was part of the team that qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2022, upsetting the odds against Canada and the United States, a serie of historic wins that sealed their qualification for the 2023 World Cup. [8]