Max Spring

{{Short description|French rugby union player (born 2001)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}

{{Expand French|date=June 2022|topic=bio}}

{{Infobox rugby biography

| name = Max Spring

| image = Max Spring 2019.jpg

| image_size =

| caption =

| birth_name = Max Spring

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|2001|03|15}}

| birth_place = Saint-Palais, France

| height = {{height|m=1.73}}{{cite web |language=en |url=https://www.ultimaterugby.com/app/public/index.php/max-spring |title=Max Spring |website=Ultimate Rugby |access-date=21 June 2022}}

| weight = {{convert|75|kg|stlb lb|abbr=on}}

| ru_position = Fullback, Wing

| ru_currentteam = Racing 92

| youthyears1 = 2006–2016

| youthyears2 = 2016–2019

| youthyears3 = 2019–2020

| youthclubs1 = Nafarroa{{cite web |language=fr |url=https://competitions.ffr.fr/2021-2022/joueurs/1775295 |title=Max Spring |website=competitions.ffr.fr |access-date=21 June 2022}}

| youthclubs2 = Bayonne

| youthclubs3 = Racing 92

| years1 = 2020–

| clubs1 = Racing 92

| apps1 = 87

| points1 = 67

| ru_clubupdate = 21 March 2025

| repyears1 = 2022–

| repteam1 = France

| repcaps1 = 1

| reppoints1 = 0

| ru_ntupdate = 9 July 2022

}}

Max Spring (born 15 March 2001) is a French rugby union player. He currently plays as a fullback for Racing 92 in the Top 14.

His father is a former New Zealand player who settled down in France and his mother is from French Basque Country. His brother, Tom Spring, plays for Bayonne.

Career

On 19 June 2022, Max Spring scored a late try with the Barbarians against England at Twickenham, during the 2022 mid-year rugby union tests.{{cite web |url=https://www.rugbypass.com/news/hapless-england-put-to-the-sword-by-galthies-barbarians |title=Hapless England put to the sword by Galthie's Barbarians |date=19 June 2022 |website=Rugby Pass |access-date=21 June 2022}}

He was called by Fabien Galthié to the French national team for the first time in June 2022, for the summer tour of Japan.{{cite web |url=https://www.rugbypass.com/news/ollivon-heads-up-hugely-changed-42-man-france-squad-in-japan |title=Ollivon heads up hugely changed 42-man France squad in Japan |last=Ekin |first=Kim |date=20 June 2022 |website=Rugby Pass |access-date=21 June 2022}}

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