Richard Piakura
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| Born | 1 July 1976 Rarotonga, Cook Islands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Piakura (born 1 July 1976) is a Cook Island former high jumper, professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for the Cook Islands, and at club level for Ngatangiia/Matavera Sea Eagles, and representative level rugby union (RU) for the Cook Islands at rugby sevens.
Athletics career
[edit]Piakura represented the Cook Islands in the high jump, setting his personal best of 1.83m in Tereora in 1998.[2] This is the Cook Islands record in high jump.
Rugby league career
[edit]Piakura played in the domestic Cook Islands rugby league competition in 2001.[3]
Piakura played for the Eastern Tornadoes in the 2004 Bartercard Cup.[4]
Representative career
[edit]Piakura made his début for the Cook Islands at the Pacific Challenge.[5] He later played at the 1997 World Nines tournament.[6]
Piakura won caps for Cook Islands in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup.[1][7]
He later represented the Cook Islands in test series against New Zealand Māori in 2003.[8]
Rugby union career
[edit]Piakura represented the Cook Islands in rugby sevens at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.[9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ Piakura, Richard iaaf.org
- ^ Round 6 Wrap Up rleague.com, 5 October 2001
- ^ Raiders fall short against the Tornadoes rleague.com, 5 June 2004
- ^ Pacific Challenge The Vault
- ^ 1997 World Nines Tournament rugby-league-world.com
- ^ Wales v Cook Islands preview BBC Sport
- ^ John Coffey, Bernie Wood (2008). 100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908-2008. Huia Publishers. p. 303. ISBN 9781869693312.
- ^ Commonwealth Games filled with Stars Rugby7.com
- ^ Cook - Richard Piakura Oceania in Melbourne
External links
[edit]- 1976 births
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for the Cook Islands
- Cook Island high jumpers
- Cook Island male athletes
- Cook Island rugby league players
- Cook Island rugby union players
- Cook Islands international rugby union players
- Cook Islands national rugby league team players
- Eastern Tornadoes players
- Living people
- Male high jumpers
- Rugby league fullbacks
- Rugby sevens players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Rugby sevens players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games