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Jonah Lomu

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Jonah Lomu
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Jonah Lomu sprints past French winger Nicolas Jeanjean during a test at the WestpacTrust Stadium in Wellington on 30 June 2001. New Zealand won 37–12. Lomu was the game’s first global superstar, an international ‘brand’ as recognisable in Tokyo or Milan as in Māngere or Wellington. At his playing best, he weighed about 118 kilograms and was 1.95 metres tall – the weight and height of a lock forward, yet he played on the wing because he also had speed. In 1995, the year of his apotheosis, thre...

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Date created
30 November 2012
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Mark Mitchell
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New Zealand Herald
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40030/jonah-lomu

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