Rugby player
| Birth name | Craig Rau Glendinning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1973-01-12) 12 January 1973 (age 52) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ōtāhuhu, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 95 kg (210 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Craig Rau Glendinning (born 12 January 1973) is a former New Zealand rugby union player, who represented both New Zealand Māori and Samoa. He usually played as a flanker.
Career
Born in Ōtāhuhu, Glendinning played provincial rugby for Counties Manukau, Northland, and Southland. Of Māori descent, he played three matches for New Zealand Māori in 1997, before going on to play for Samoa between 1999 and 2001. His first cap for Samoa as a number 8 against Japan, at Osaka, on 22 May 1999. He played three matches for Samoa at the 1999 Rugby World Cup. His final cap for Samoa was against Fiji, at Tokyo, on 8 July 2001.
References
- ^ "Craig R Glendinning". New Zealand Rugby History. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ "Statsguru player analysis: Craig Glendinning". ESPNScrum. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ "Craig Glendinning". ESPNScrum. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- John Morrison (2 December 1999). "Flanker signs for Southland". Southland Times. p. 28 – via EBSCOHost.
Having a Samoan father and a Maori mother has also enabled him to play his rugby at the highest level including 11 consecutive internationals for Western Samoa in the No 7 jersey.
| Samoa squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup | |
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Rugby union players from Auckland
- Samoa international rugby union players
- New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Samoa
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent
- Benetton Rugby players
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Italy
- Rugby union flankers
- Rugby union number eights
- Counties Manukau rugby union players
- Northland rugby union players
- Southland rugby union players
- 1999 Rugby World Cup players
- Māori All Blacks players
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- Samoan rugby union biography stubs