Geelong half-back flanker Jack Grant won the 1938 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and eleven-sixteenths seconds, off a handicap of 11½ yards.
Essendon winger Lance Mann wins the 1952, 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and fourteen-sixteenths seconds, off a handicap of 7¼yards; his team-mate, half-back flanker Norm McDonald, running off a handicap of 5 yards, comes second.
Flanker Frank Clarke caught 10 passes for 241 yards and scored 3 touchdowns in the game, but kicker Sam Baker missed a 35-yard field goal with 13 seconds left and the Cowboys had to settle for a 35–35 tie.
All Blacks open-side flanker Richie McCaw rated him as one of the best back rows in the game, shortly after he missed being selected for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.
Other notable players in that side were future World Cup Winners Matt Dawson and Richard Hill.
McDonald, a flanker, was born in Wau, Papua New Guinea, in the province of Morobe and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia.
Benjamin T. Russell (born 10 January 1983 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a rugby union player who plays at No. 8 or Flanker for London Welsh.
Laycock, a flanker, was born in Walcha, New South Wales and claimed a total of 4 international rugby caps for Australia.
Farmer, a flanker, was born in Holborn and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.
Dawidiuk joined the Cornish Pirates as an Academy player in 2006 having played his youth rugby at Truro, joining the city club at the age of 12, and making progress through the juniors and colts before he made a 1st team debut as a blind-side flanker in a league match against St. Ives.
A flanker, he played his club rugby for Cardiff RFC, but played his best rugby for Llanelli RFC and Carmarthen Athletic.
Georgios Ilias Bertolis (born 8 May 1991) is a Rugby Football Union player currently playing as an openside flanker for National 1 side Blackheath FC.
Roberts would team up again with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, playing Ruben Kruger, a flanker alongside co-star Matt Damon who portrayed team captain Francois Pinnear for the South Africa national team the Springboks that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, in the 2009 film Invictus.
Fihelly, a flanker, was born in Timoleague, Ireland and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.
Lewis Calder (born 4 May 1988) is a professional Rugby Union player who currently plays flanker for London Scottish.
Michel Crauste (born July 6, 1934 in Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse, France) is a retired French international rugby union player.He played as a flanker and Number 8 for Racing Club de France and FC Lourdes.
Richard Tardits (Flanker, 19 Caps) A former U-21 French international rugby player, Tardits was a walk on for the University of Georgia football team where he held the record for most career sacks (29) until it was broken by David Pollack (Cincinnati Bengals) in 2004.
Nick Cudd (born 12 October 1988) is a rugby union footballer currently playing at flanker for Newport Gwent Dragons having previously played for Llanelli RFC and the Scarlets.
Near the end of October 2006, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper revealed that Russian state-run weapon exporter Rosoboronexport was completing negotiations with China to deliver up to 48 Sukhoi Su-33 (NATO codename: Flanker-D) carrier-capable fighter aircraft in a purchase deal reportedly worth $2.5 billion.
In 2010 Elsom was named at blindside flanker in a European dream team by the ERC to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Heineken Cup, this came despite him only spending one season with Leinster such was his impact during the tournament that year.
Viliami Ofahengaue, affectionately known as Willie O, former Wallaby number eight and Flanker with 41 caps between 1990 and 1998, including the 1991 and 1995 World Cups.
Kevin Morris, mercurial half forward flanker who went on to a successful career with Richmond and Collingwood Football Clubs