Gareth Cooper (born 7 May 1979 in Bridgend) is a rugby union player who plays at scrum-half for Newport Gwent Dragons and has won 26 caps for Wales. Jump to: navigation, search May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search This page refers to the year 1979. ... Bridgend (Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a town in the traditional county of Glamorgan and the main town in the county borough of Bridgend. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rugby Union is a team sport that was developed from the rules used to play football at Rugby School in England. ... Jump to: navigation, search A rugby union team is made up of 15 players: eight forwards, numbered from 1 to 8; and seven backs, numbered from 9 to 15. ... The Newport Gwent Dragons (Welsh: Dreigiau Gwent Casnewydd) are a regional Rugby Union team from Wales, playing in the Celtic League and European Rugby Cup/European Rugby Shield. ... The Welsh rugby union team, as the highest level of Welsh rugby union, represent Wales at the national sport of rugby union. ...

Cooper (height 5 feet 7 inches, weight 12st 10lb) studied Sports Science at UWIC. He started his rugby career rugby as a wing with the mini-rugby section at Pencoed, a club which has also produced players such as Scott Gibbs and Gareth Thomas, then played for Bath before returning to Wales in 2003 to play for the Celtic Warriors. When the Warriors were wound up Cooper signed for Newport Gwent Dragons. Jump to: navigation, search Scott Gibbs (Born 23 January 1971 in Bridgend) is a former rugby union footballer who represented Wales and the Lions in Union and Wales and Great Britain in League. ... Gareth Thomas (born 25 July 1974) is a rugby union player who plays at full-back, wing or centre for Toulouse. ... Bath Rugby is an English rugby union team that plays in the Guinness Premiership league. ... The Celtic Warriors were a regional Rugby Union team from Wales, playing in the Celtic League and European Rugby Cup/European Rugby Shield. ...

He won Welsh caps at U18, U19, U21 and Wales A levels, toured Canada with the Wales Development squad in 2000 and made his international debut for the senior Wales side in 2001 against Italy in Rome, scoring a try after just eight minutes. He was the first-choice scrum-half for Wales in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... (Redirected from 2003 Rugby World Cup) The 2003 Rugby Union World Cup was the fifth world cup in rugby history. ...

In 2005 he lost his place as first-choice scrum-half for Wales to Dwayne Peel and was on the bench for the first three games of the Six Nations Championship. He missed the final two games owing to an ankle injury incurred in the IRB Rugby Aid Match at Twickenham in March. Dwayne Peel (born 31 August 1981 in Carmarthen) is a rugby union player who plays at scrum-half for Llanelli Scarlets and Wales. ... History The Five Nations Championship, with its predecessor, the Home Championship, was the premier international rugby union tournament in the Northern hemisphere. ... The IRB Rugby Aid Match was a rugby union football match played on 5 March 2005 under the auspices of the International Rugby Board to raise money for the United Nations World Food Programme to support its work aiding victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. ... Jump to: navigation, search Twickenham is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in the south-west of London It is best known as the home of Twickenham Stadium - the headquarters of the Rugby Football Union. ...

Cooper was selected for the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, but again lost out to Dwayne Peel for the test scrum-half spot and only played in a few midweek games. The 2005 Lions tour logo In 2005 the British and Irish Lions Rugby union team toured New Zealand for the first time since 1993, suffering a 3-0 whitewash at the hands of the New Zealand All Blacks. ...