Wimpie van der Walt

Petrus Willem van der Walt (born 6 January 1989 in Brits, North West) is a South African-born Japanese rugby union player who represents at international level and is currently playing with NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes in the Japanese Top League. His regular position is lock or flanker.

Youth
Van der Walt represented the at the 2006 and 2007 Craven Week tournaments. He then joined and represented them at Under-19 and Under-21 levels between 2008 and 2010. He was also included in the squad for the 2010 Varsity Cup, but never made an appearance.

Western Province
He made his first team debut for in a Vodacom Cup match on 27 February 2010 against. and made his Currie Cup debut the following year against. In total, he made fifteen Vodacom Cup and two Currie Cup appearances for.

San Gregorio
In October 2011, he joined Italian National Championship of Excellence team San Gregorio and made sixteen appearances for them in the 2011–2012 season, but could not help stop them from finishing last in the table and getting relegated to Serie A1 in 2012–13.

Eastern Province Kings
He returned to South Africa a few months later and joined for the 2012 Currie Cup First Division season. He made his debut on 30 July 2012 in the opening game of the season against.

Southern Kings
He was named in the squad for the 2013 Super Rugby season. He made his debut in the first match of the season against the and quickly established himself as a first team regular, starting the fifteen out of the sixteen matches that season.

He scored his first try for the Kings in their defeat to the in Christchurch. He also scored a try in the Kings' dramatic 28–28 draw against the, as well as a week later, when he scored a late try against the (the resulting conversion by Demetri Catrakilis tied the game at 27–27 and an injury-time drop goal secured a 30–27 win for the Kings). He also scored in the 19–11 defeat to the and got two tries the following week against the  to become the Kings' leading try-scorer for the season with six tries.

NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes
He signed for Japanese Top League side NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes for the 2013–14 season, scoring two tries in 13 appearances.

Bulls
He returned to South Africa following the conclusion of the 2013–14 Top League and joined the on a two-month contract during the 2014 Super Rugby season.

Return to NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes and representing Japan
After the Super Rugby season, he returned to the Hurricanes squad to ply his trade. In November 2017 he was called up into the squad for. He made his Test debut against Australia and made another two appearances in November. The South African born forward entered the 2019 Super Rugby season with 28 Super Rugby caps and 9 test caps for Japan. He cemented his place into the Japan's squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and has made 15 appearances for Japan heading into the quarter-finals of the tournament.