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| Born | 28 January 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Second-row, Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Semisi Tora (born 28 January 1979) is a Fijian rugby league footballer who represented his country at the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. He plays as a prop or second-row forward. He is the son of dual-code rugby international Kaiava Salusalu. [2]
As of 2012, he was playing for the Nyngan Tigers. [3] Tora also competed for Fiji at the 2006 Pacific Cup.
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