David Campese is a former Australia rugby union fullback and winger. Campese is considered to be a once in a generation player, and since his retirement has held the most test tries for the Wallabies with sixty-four. Between 1982 and 1998. Campese held the most international tries scored by any player, being overtaken by Japanese winger Daisuke Ohata, the current record-holder. Originally Campese overtook Scottish winger Ian Smith, who, with twenty-four international tries, held the world record from the 1930s. However, when Campese overtook Smith's record (1987), he was an active player, and grew the record out to a significant margin by his retirement (1996).

In August 2016 South African winger Bryan Habana scored his sixty-fifth try, overtaking Campese's record. Habana was just the second international player to overtake Campese.

Currently David Campese is the third highest international try-scorer in the world, and is twenty-four tries ahead of the second-most try-scoring Wallaby Chris Latham with forty.

International tries List of International tries

+ International tries Opponent Location Competition Date Result 1 Lancaster Park, Christchurch14 August 198223–162Athletic Park, Wellington 28 August 198216–19 3 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 1983 United States tour of Canada and Australia 9 July 1983 49–3 4567 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney1983 Argentina tour of Australia7 August 1983 29–13 8 National Stadium, Suva1984 Australia tour of Fiji 9 June 1984 3–16 9 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney1984 New Zealand tour of Australia 18 August 1984 24–25 10 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh1984 Australia tour of Great Britain and Ireland 8 December 1984 12–371112 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney1985 Fiji tour of Australia17 August 1985 31–913 14 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane 1986 Italy tour of Australia 1 June 1986 39–181516 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 1986 France tour of Argentina, Australia and New Zealand21 June 1986 27–14 17 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane1986 Argentina tour of Australia 6 July 1986 39–19 18 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 12 July 198626–0 19 20 Athletic Park, Wellington 1986 Australia tour of New Zealand9 August 1986 12–13 21 Eden Park, Auckland6 September 19869–22 22 Concord Oval, Sydney(P1) 1987 Rugby World Cup 23 May 1987 19–6 23 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane(P1) 31 May 1987 47–12 24 Concord Oval, Sydney(P1) 3 June 1987 42–23 25 Concord Oval, Sydney(SF)13 June 1987 24–30 26 Concord Oval, Sydney 1988 England tour of Australia and Fiji 12 June 1988 28–8 27 Twickenham Stadium, London 1988 Australia tour of Great Britain and Italy 5 November 1988 28–19 28 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 19 November 1988 13–32 29 30 Stadio Flaminio, Rome 3 December 1988 6–55 313233 Eden Park, Auckland 1989 Australia tour of New Zealand 5 August 1989 24–12 34 Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg 1989 Australia tour of Canada and France 4 November 1989 15–32 35 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane1990 France tour of Australia 24 June 1990 48–31 36 Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney30 June 1990 19–28 37 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane 1990 United States tour of Australia 8 July 1990 67–9 38 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane1991 Wales tour of Australia 22 July 1991 63–6 39 Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney1991 England tour of Australia 27 July 1991 40–15 40 41 Stradey Park, Llanelli (Wales)(P3) 1991 Rugby World Cup 4 October 1991 19–32 42 43 Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff (Wales)(P3) 12 October 1991 3–38 44 Lansdowne Road, Dublin (Ireland)(QF) 20 October 1991 18–19 4546 Lansdowne Road, Dublin (Ireland)(SF) 27 October 1991 16–6 47 Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney1992 Scotland tour of Australia 13 June 1992 27–12 4849 Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney1992 New Zealand tour of Australia and South Africa 4 July 1992 16–15 50 Newlands Stadium, Cape Town 1992 Australia tour of South Africa 22 August 1992 3–26 51Lansdowne Road, Dublin1992 Australia tour of Great Britain and Ireland 31 October 1992 17–42 52 Millennium Stadium, Cardiff 21 November 1992 6–23 53 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane1993 Tonga tour of Australia4 July 1993 52–14 5455 Kingsland, Calgary 1993 Australia tour of North America and France 9 October 1993 16–43565758 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane 1994 Ireland tour of Australia 5 June 1994 33–13 59 Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne 1994 Italy tour of Australia 25 June 1994 20–7 60 Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney1994 Western Samoa tour of Australia6 August 1994 73–3 61 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane1995 Argentina tour of Australia 30 April 1995 53–7 62Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney 6 May 1995 30–136364 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane 1996 Canada tour of Australia 29 June 1996 74–9

Tries by opponent

+ International tries by opponentOpponentMatchesTries 7 6 0 186 9 1.286 29 10 1 18 35 8.276 3 3 0 0 100 6 2.000 4 4 0 0 100 6 1.500 6 6 0 0 100 6 1.000 8 6 0 2 75 5 .626 10 4 1 5 40 5 .500 3 3 0 0 100 4 1.333 6 6 0 0 100 4 .667 3 3 0 0 100 3 1.000 8 7 0 1 88 3 .3761 1 0 0 100 2 2.0001 1 0 0 100 1 1.000 2 2 0 0 100 1 .500 7 4 0 3 57 1 .1433 1 0 2 330 .000 Total101 67 2 32 66 64 .634 Opponent TriesMatches

+ List of hat-tricks Opponent Location Competition Date Result4 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney1983 United States tour of Canada and Australia9 July 198349–3Stadio Flaminio, Rome1988 Australia tour of Great Britain and Italy3 December 19886–55Kingsland, Calgary1993 Australia tour of North America and France9 October 199316–43 + List of tries per year YearCapsTries198232.6719837 5.7119848 4.5019852 21.0019867 81.1419877 4.5719888 7.88198962.33 1990 63.501991109.90199286.75199385.63199463.50199563.50199691.11

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