# Geoff Wheel

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{{Short description|Wales international rugby union footballer (1951–2024)}}
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{{Infobox rugby biography
| name            = Geoff Wheel
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| birth_name      = Geoffrey Wheel
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1951|6|30|df=y}}
| birth_place     = [Swansea](/source/Swansea), Wales
| death_date      = {{death date and age|2024|12|26|1951|6|30|df=y}}
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| position        = Lock
| amatyears1      = 
| amatteam1       = [Mumbles RFC](/source/Mumbles_RFC)
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| amatteam2       = [Swansea RFC](/source/Swansea_RFC)
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| repteam1        = [Wales](/source/Wales_national_rugby_union_team)
| repyears1       = 1974–1982
| repcaps1        = 32
| reppoints1      = 0
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'''Geoffrey Wheel''' (30 June 1951 – 26 December 2024) was a Wales international rugby union player who attained 32 international caps.<ref>[http://www.wru.co.uk/14256.php?player=26390&includeref=dynamic Wales profile]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  A lock-forward, he played club rugby for [Mumbles RFC](/source/Mumbles_RFC) and then [Swansea RFC](/source/Swansea_RFC).

Wheel made his international debut on 2 February 1974 versus Ireland and between 1974 and 1982 he formed a formidable second-row partnership for Wales with [Allan Martin](/source/Allan_Martin_(rugby_union)) during the second 'golden-age' of the Wales international team.

In 1977 Wheel, along with [Willie Duggan](/source/Willie_Duggan) of Ireland, became the first players to be sent off in a [Five Nations](/source/Six_Nations_Championship) international match.

Wheel was the organist in the Parish of St Thomas in Swansea where he also ran Geoff's Tuck Shop at the Boys Brigade every Wednesday.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} In 2011 he agreed to become the president of a Welsh male voice choir, the Swansea-based [Gwalia Singers](/source/Gwalia_Singers_(Swansea)).{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Wheel died from [motor neurone disease](/source/motor_neurone_disease) on 26 December 2024, at the age of 73.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Wales and Swansea lock Wheel dies aged 73 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cdxzggd0p2go |access-date=27 December 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport |date=26 December 2024}}</ref>

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Category:1951 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:Barbarian F.C. players
Category:Rugby union players from Swansea
Category:Deaths from motor neuron disease in the United Kingdom
Category:Swansea RFC players
Category:Wales international rugby union players
Category:Welsh rugby union players
Category:Rugby union locks
Category:Neurological disease deaths in Wales
Category:20th-century Welsh sportsmen

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