Rugby player
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| Birth name | Vilimoni Waqatabu Delasau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1977-07-12) 12 July 1977 (age 47) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sorokaba, Ba, Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 99 kg (15 st 8 lb; 218 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Vilimoni Waqatabu Delasau (born 12 July 1977 in Sorokaba, Ba) is a Fijian former rugby union footballer. He played as a wing. His nickname is Delz.
Early career
He grew up in the Town of Ba and he played for Lautoka in the National Provincial Rugby Tournament in Fiji. He was picked to represent Fiji in the Rugby Sevens. He scored 85 tries for the Fiji sevens. In 1999 Delasau was named Player of the Year at the Fiji Rugby Awards after scoring 82 tries in the season. He earned his first Test cap against the US Eagles in June 2000 after impressing in the sevens form of the game the previous year. He also holds the record for scoring the most tries in a sevens game with 6 tries.
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Europe
He then went to Japan and played there for two years before going to France and playing for the Mont-de-Marsan rugby club where he played 5 games for them scoring 3 tries. After that he returned to Fiji and was chosen to represent the Canterbury in the NPC. He later represented the Crusaders in the Super 12 competition and in late 2005, he represented the Highlanders in the Super 14 competition. After his short stint, he moved to France to join ASM Clermont Auvergne where he represented them in the Top 14 and in the ECC competition. He scored a few good tries for clermont including a 90-metre run against London Wasps in the 2007–08 Heineken Cup which was awarded the try of the season. He joined his new club, US Montauban after his contract with Clermont expired and he chose not to renew it.
He represented Fiji in the 2003 and 2007 Rugby World Cup. In the 2007 World Cup he scored one of the tries as Fiji defeated Wales to reach their first quarter final in 20 years, and he also scored a try in the quarter-final defeat to South Africa. He was also part of the Fiji sevens at the 2001, 2005 and 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Later career
In April 2010 he joined Toulouse as a medical joker as they suffered numerous injuries. Montauban suffered a points deduction for financial irregularities and will be relegated at the end of the 2009/2010 season. He scored his first try against Castres on just his second game for his new team.
In February 2012, he retired from International rugby.
References
- "My Rugby World Cup hero: Vilimoni Delasau". Planet Rugby. 20 August 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- "London Wasps v ASM Clermont Auvergne". ERCRugby.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
- "Wales 34-38 Fiji". BBC. 29 September 2007. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- "South Africa 37-20 Fiji". BBC. 7 October 2007. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- "Delasau heads to Toulouse". SkySports.com. 7 April 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
- "Montauban thrown out of Top 14". PlanetRugby.com. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
- No more Test rugby for Dels
External links
- Crusaders profile
- (in French) Montauban profile
- (in French) Toulouse profile
- Vilimoni Delasau at ESPNscrum
- Fiji profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 July 2011)
| Fiji squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup | |
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| Coach: Tabua | |
| Fiji squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup | |
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| Coach: McCallion | |
| Pacific Islanders 2008 tour to Europe | |
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Ba (town)
- Rugby union players from Ba Province
- Doping cases in rugby union
- Fijian rugby union players
- Fijian sportspeople in doping cases
- Rugby union wings
- Canterbury rugby union players
- Crusaders (rugby union) players
- Highlanders (rugby union) players
- ASM Clermont Auvergne players
- Stade Toulousain players
- Fiji international rugby union players
- Pacific Islanders rugby union players
- Fijian expatriate rugby union players in New Zealand
- Fijian expatriate rugby union players in France
- Fijian expatriate rugby union players in Japan
- Fiji international rugby sevens players
- Male rugby sevens players
- I-Taukei Fijian people
- Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Fiji
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for Fiji
- Rugby sevens players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 2003 Rugby World Cup players
- 2007 Rugby World Cup players
- World Games medalists in rugby sevens
- World Games medalists for Fiji
- Medalists at the 2001 World Games