Angelo Heinz Panetaleo Leaupepe (born 29 July 1997 in Redcliffe) is a New Zealand

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player. His usual position is as a

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, and he currently plays for

Petrarca Padova Petrarca Rugby is a professional rugby union club from Padua, Italy, currently competing in the top tier of the Italian rugby union, the Serie A Elite. Founded in 1947, the team is the rugby union branch of the Unione Sportiva Petrarca, an omn ...

in the Italian Serie A Elite. In 2017 and 2018, Leaupepe was named in the

National Rugby Championship The National Rugby Championship, known as NRC, was an Australian rugby union competition. It was contested by eight teams, seven from Australia and one from Fiji. The tournament ran from 2014 until 2019 before being disbanded in 2020 following t ...

team

Melbourne Rising The Melbourne Rising was an Australian rugby union team based in Melbourne that competed in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The team represented the rugby community in Victoria, Australia, Victoria and was organised and managed by Rugby V ...

. He played for

Valorugby Emilia The Valorugby Emilia, previously known as Rugby Reggio, is a professional Italian rugby union team based in Reggio nell'Emilia, in the Emilia-Romagna region. They currently play in the Top12, after gaining promotion from winning Serie A in the 201 ...

Top12 The Top10, known as the Peroni Top10 for sponsorship reasons, and formerly Top 12, is Italy's top level professional men's rugby union competition. The Top 10 is run by Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR) and is contested by 10 teams as of the 2 ...

from 2020 to 2022. He also played for

until 2020. From 2022, he played for

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and for 2024−2025 season he signed for

in the Italian Serie A Elite.

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* 1997 births Living people New Zealand rugby union players Melbourne Rising players Valorugby Emilia players Rugby union wings Rugby union players from Queensland People from South East Queensland Northern Suburbs Rugby Club players New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Italy Petrarca Rugby players 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1990s-stub