David Loko

David Loko
Personal information
Born	11 August 1990 (age 34); Papua New Guinea
Playing information
Position	Second-row
Club
Representative
	Source: As of 9 November 2023

Last updated August 13, 2024

David Loko is a former Papua New Guinean rugby league player who played for the Limoux Grizzlies in the Elite One Championship in France and for Papua New Guinea in international level. His position is second row. He played for the Papua New Guinea national rugby league team in the 2010 Four Nations and was selected in the train-on side for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.^[2] He first played with the Lorma Tarrangau in his local competition, the Ipatas Cup, then was selected to play with the Enga Mioks and went on to play for the Kumuls.

Personal life

Loko works as a farmer in Papua New Guinea and as a fruit picker in Australia in 2018 while playing for the Fassifern Bombers in the Ipswich Regional Championship. He represented the kumuls at the Four Nations. ^[3]^[4] He played for the PNG Hunters in 2017 Instrust Super Cup final where they won for the first time.

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References

↑ David Loko rugbyleagueproject.org
↑ Lam names PNG train-on squad ^[usurped]RLWC2013
↑ "New Zealand v Papua New Guinea, Full Time 76-12 - NRL Results - NRL Stats". live.nrlstats.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-05.
↑ http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/10/11/02/RUGBYL_Column.html ^{[ dead link ]}

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[1] David Loko rugbyleagueproject.org

[2] Lam names PNG train-on squad ^[usurped]RLWC2013

[3] "New Zealand v Papua New Guinea, Full Time 76-12 - NRL Results - NRL Stats". live.nrlstats.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-05.

[4] ttp://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/10/11/02/RUGBYL_Column.html ^{[ dead link ]}

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