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Date of birth | 25 October 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 111 kg (245 lb; 17 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Tauranga Boys' College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aidan Ross (born 25 October 1995) is an Australia-born New Zealand rugby union player who plays Prop for the Chiefs in the Super Rugby competition and for the All Blacks internationally. [1] [2]
Ross debuted for the Bay of Plenty in 2015 and was also a member of the New Zealand Under-20 squad who won the Under-20 Championship in Italy. [3]
In 2017, He was called into the Chiefs squad as an injury cover and made his debut against the Western Force on 22 April. [2] [4] He captained the Bay of Plenty when they won the 2019 Mitre 10 Cup Championship final. [5] [6]
In 2021, Ross was called into the All Blacks squad as an injury cover for Karl Tu'inukuafe ahead of the second test against Fiji but did not get to play. [7] He made his international debut for New Zealand against Ireland on 9 July 2022 at Dunedin. [8] [9] [10]
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