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| Full name | Peter James Dimond | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1938-11-28)28 November 1938 Dapto,New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 April 2021(2021-04-21) (aged 82)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Relatives | Craig Dimond (son) Bobby Dimond (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Dimond (28 November 1938 – 21 April 2021) was an Australianrugby league footballer who played his club rugby league forWestern Suburbs. Born inDapto,New South Wales, he is the younger brother of formerAustralian test player andNew South Wales representativeBobby Dimond. He is also the father of formerIllawarra Steelers,Cronulla Sharks andCanberra Raiders utilityCraig Dimond. Peter was named both in the Western Suburbs Team of the Century and theWests Tigers Team of the Century.
Dimond was selected at age 14 in a New South Wales schoolboy side in a curtain raiser to the 1952 Australia and New Zealand Test match.
While still a teenager, Dimond was selected to representAustralia in three test matches againstGreat Britain. Peter Dimond joined Western Suburbs in1958. He played in all four of the club's grand final losses to the greatSt. George side. They lost 20–9 in 1958 with Dimond playingfive-eighth, 22–0 in 1961, 9–6 in 1962 and 8–3 in 1963.[4]
He was called up to play on theKangaroo tour in 1963-64[5] where he played in all six test matches. His tour highlight being his two tries in his country's 50–12 victory atStation Road,Swinton nearManchester that was dubbed the 'Swinton Massacre' and it was also the match that securedthe Ashes for Australia on British soil for the first time. His final appearance in the Australian team came in the third and deciding test match against Great Britain in 1966 when Australia again retained the Ashes. At the time he left the club, Dimond held the record of a total of 83 tries for Western Suburbs. After leaving Western Suburbs he played out the rest of his career for a localNewcastle team in the early 1970s.
On Friday 24 September 2004 the Western Suburbs Magpies honoured their greatest ever players by naming their Team of the Century. Dimond was named on the wing.[6] In 2008 the Western Suburbs Magpies celebrated their centenary by inducting six inaugural members into the club's Hall of Fame. These six included Dimond.[7]
In 2010 Dimond was named in a South Newcastle team of the century.[8]