Kane Le'aupepe

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Kane Le'aupepe
Date of birth (1992-12-03) 3 December 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth Wellington, New Zealand
Height201 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight118 kg (260 lb; 18 st 8 lb)
School Newlands College
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock, Flanker
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2016
2018–2020
2019–2020
Wellington
Bay of Plenty
Hurricanes
1
15
11
(0)
(15)
(10)
Correct as of 5 June 2022
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2018–2019 Samoa 10 (0)
Correct as of 5 June 2022

Kane Le'aupepe (born 3 December 1992 in New Zealand) is a former Samoan rugby union player who plays for the Hurricanes in Super Rugby. His playing position is lock. He was named in the Hurricanes squad for week 1 in 2019. [1]

On 23 August 2019, he was named in Samoa's 34-man training squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, [2] before being named in the final 31 on 31 August. [3]

Reference list

  1. "Match Centre – Sanzar Hurricanes v Crusaders". SANZAR. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  2. Airey, Thomas (23 August 2019). "Alalatoa headlines Manu Samoa pre-World Cup squad". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  3. "Two uncapped players in Samoa squad for Japan". rugbyworldcup.com. Rugby World Cup. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.


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