Sean Fitzpatrick

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Sean Fitzpatrick

ONZM

Fitzpatrick in 2024
Birth name	Sean Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick
Date of birth	(1963-06-04) 4 June 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	105 kg (16 st 7 lb)
School	Sacred Heart College
Notable relative(s)	Brian Fitzpatrick (father) Rosanne Meo (aunt) Connie Purdue (great-aunt) Miriam Soljak (great-grandmother)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 1986–1997 Auckland 127 (60) Super Rugby Years Team Apps (Points) 1996–1997 Auckland Blues 25 (10) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1986–1997 New Zealand 92 (60)

Sean Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick ONZM (born 4 June 1963) is a New Zealand former rugby union player.

He played for the dominant Auckland team in the late 1980s and 1990s, and won the first two Super 12 titles with the Auckland Blues in 1996 and 1997.

He made his debut for the New Zealand national team (the All Blacks) in 1986, and went on to win 92 international caps. He was part of the New Zealand side that won the first Rugby World Cup in 1987. He captained New Zealand from 1992 until his retirement in 1997, winning a grim test series against the British Lions in 1993, reaching and losing the 1995 World Cup final, and winning a series in South Africa in 1996.