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Jonah Lomu
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Jonah Tali Lomu was a New Zealand rugby union player who played as a winger. Born in Auckland on May 12, 1975, he began his professional career in 1994. Throughout his career, he was a member of the Blues, Chiefs, Wellington Rugby Football Union, and Barbarian FC. He also competed in rugby sevens and participated in the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Lomu stood 196 centimeters tall and weighed 119 kilograms. He underwent a kidney transplantation during his life. He died of natural causes in Auckland on November 18, 2015. The causes of death were listed as kidney failure, nephrotic syndrome, and cardiac arrest.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1975
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Jonah Lomu
- Jonah
- Jonah Lomu Autobiography
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 14
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,996x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
- The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
· 2020 · cited 5,341x
- Practical Bayesian model evaluation using leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC
· 2016 · cited 4,590x
- Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease
· 2012 · cited 4,298x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1994
- New Zealand U21
- 1996
- New Zealand Barbarians
- 1999
- Chiefs
- 2006
- North Harbour
- Born
- Jonah Tali Lomu , ( 1975-05-12 ) 12 May 1975, Pukekohe , Auckland , New Zealand
- Died
- 18 November 2015 (2015-11-18) (aged 40), Auckland, New Zealand
- Height
- 196 cm (6 ft 5 in)
- Weight
- 125 kg (276 lb; 19 st 10 lb)
- School
- Wesley College
- Notable relatives
- John Tamanika (cousin) Seti Kiole (cousin)
- Position s
- Position(s) Wing , Number 8
- Years
- Team
- 1994 1999
- Counties Manukau
- 1996 1998
- Blues
- 2000 2003
- Hurricanes
- 2005 2006
- Cardiff Blues
- 2009 2010
- Marseille Vitrolles
- 1994 2002
- New Zealand
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Medal record
Jonah Tali Lomu MNZM (12 May 1975 – 18 November 2015) was a New Zealand professional rugby union player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in the history of the sport, and as one of the most talented sportsmen of all time. Lomu is widely considered to have been the first true global superstar of rugby, and consequently had a huge impact on the game.
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