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Rugby player
Ropate Rinakama
Date of birth (1988-01-17) 17 January 1988 (age 36)
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight273 lb (124 kg)
SchoolMount Albert Grammar School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2017–18 FC Grenoble 7 (0)
2019–20 Worcester Warriors 3 ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
2013, 2019 North Harbour 7 (0)
2017–18 Northland 21 (5)
2021–22 Manawatu 6 (0)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2017–18 Fiji 3 (0)

Ropate Rinakama (born 17 January 1988) is a Fijian rugby union player.

Biography

Born in Fiji, Rinakama took up a scholarship to finish his schooling at Auckland's Mount Albert Grammar School.

A tighthead prop, Rinakama played provincial rugby in New Zealand for North Harbour, Northland and Manawatu. He also had stints in Europe as short-term injury cover at FC Grenoble in 2017-18 and the Worcester Warriors in 2019–20.

Rinakama was capped twice during Fiji's 2017 end of year Northern Hemisphere tour and gained a third cap for the Flying Fijians against Samoa in a 2018 Pacific Nations Cup match in Suva.

See also

References

  1. "Rinakama joins Fiji tour squad". NZ Herald. 17 October 2017.
  2. Milne, Jonathan (10 April 2022). "From rugby star to roadworker, the struggle recruiting to build NZ's critical infrastructure". Newsroom.
  3. "Warriors boss provides update on new signing". Kidderminster Shuttle. 5 November 2019.
  4. "Warriors sign international prop". Worcester News. 31 October 2019.

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