Greg Smith (rugby union, born 1968)
Appearance
Birth name | Gregory Robert Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | July 16, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 231 lb (105 kg; 16.5 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gregory Robert Smith (born 16 July 1968) is a Fijian former rugby union player. He played for Japan as flanker.
Career
[edit]Smith first played for Japan on 3 May 1998, against Canada at the Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium. He was present in the 1999 Rugby World Cup roster, where he played all the 3 matches in the tournament, against Samoa, Wales and Argentina, at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, on 16 October, which would be his last international cap. Throughout all his career, Smith earned 17 caps, 15 points and 3 tries scored.[1] At club level, he played for Canterbury in the NPC[2] and then, he moved in Japan to play for the Toyota Motors club.[3]
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Categories:
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Japanese rugby union players
- Rugby union flankers
- Toyota Verblitz players
- Japan international rugby union players
- 1999 Rugby World Cup players
- Fijian expatriate rugby union players in New Zealand
- Fijian expatriate rugby union players in Japan
- Naturalized citizens of Japan
- Naturalised rugby union players
- Canterbury rugby union players
- Japanese rugby union biography stubs