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Jonny Wilkinson
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Jonathan Peter "Jonny" Wilkinson, born May 25, 1979 in Frimley, Surrey, is an English rugby union player and member of the England rugby union team.

Wilkinson plays his club rugby in the Guinness Premiership for Newcastle Falcons. He has a reputation for an obsessive approach to training; in particular spending hours a day on goal-kicking practice even while at school. This has paid dividends; in 2003 he kicked the winning drop goal in the last minute of extra time of the final of the Rugby World Cup against Australia.

Wilkinson was educated at Pierrepont in Frensham and Lord Wandsworth College, playing rugby as a junior, he was talent-scouted by his school rugby coach. He left school in 1997 and deferred his studies at Durham University for a year to try full-time rugby union. He started his career at inside centre for the Newcastle Falcons.

By 1998, he had already been included in the full time England national team, making his debut from the bench against Ireland at Twickenham on April 4 of that year aged 18.

Wilkinson had established himself as a regular England rugby player, and subsequently made his World Cup debut at the 1999 World Cup. In 2001 Wilkinson helped the Falcons to the 2001 Tetley’s Bitter Cup at Twickenham. His elevation to worldwide acclaim was at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia, where Wilkinson kicked the winning drop goal in extra time at Telstra Stadium to give England its first ever World Cup, breaking the southern hemisphere's dominance in the process.

In their opening game of the 2007 Six Nations Championship against Scotland on February 3, 2007, Wilkinson scored 27 points in the game (a record in the Calcutta Cup) and was awarded Man of the Match. One week later, against Italy at Twickenham, he became the highest point-scorer in the history of the Five/Six Nations Championship.