Alan Cardy (19 September 1945 – 19 December 2021) was a representative of Australia in rugby union.
[1] As a young man he concentrated on track and field, winning the Australian Junior Championships discus throw in 1963, aged just seventeen.
[1] In 1965, he ran 22.0 seconds in the 220 yards to finish third at the Australian National Championships – one-tenth of a second ahead of Peter Norman, the future silver medallist in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
He played a few games for the Blue Mountains Rugby Club during 1962 and 1963,[2] and later joined Drummoyne in 1965.
However, his wing-threequarters career never reached any great heights in rugby league after suffering a broken leg in the pre-season.