Kurt Eklund (born 5 January 1992 in
New Zealand
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) is a
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
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 who plays for the in
Super Rugby
Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ...
. His playing position is
hooker. He has signed for the Blues squad in 2020.
Personal life
Eklund is a New Zealander of
Māori descent (
Ngāti Kahu
Ngāti Kahu is a Māori iwi of Northland, New Zealand. The iwi is one of the six Muriwhenua iwi of the far north of the North Island. Ngāti Kahu take their name from their founding ancestress, Kahutianui, and link their ancestry back to the wa ...
descent).
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1992 births
New Zealand rugby union players
Living people
Rugby union hookers
Auckland rugby union players
Bay of Plenty rugby union players
Blues (Super Rugby) players
Māori All Blacks players
Ngāti Kahu people
People educated at Auckland Grammar School
21st-century New Zealand sportsmen
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