Peter Lakai is a New Zealand
rugby union
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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 previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Building on various Southern Hem ...
. His playing position is
flanker
Flanker may refer to:
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* Flanker (rugby union), a position in rugby union (not found in rugby league)
* ''Su-27 Flanker'' (video game), a 1996 computer game modelin ...
or
number 8. He was named in the Hurricanes squad for the
2023 Super Rugby Pacific season
The 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season (known as Harvey Norman Super Rugby Pacific in Australia, Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific in Fiji and DHL Super Rugby Pacific in New Zealand) is the 28th season of Super Rugby, an annual rugby union competition ...
.
He was also a member of the
2022 Bunnings NPC
The 2022 Bunnings NPC season is the seventeenth season of New Zealand's provincial rugby union competition, the National Provincial Championship, since it turned professional in 2006. It involves the top fourteen provincial rugby unions of New ...
squad.
Lakai represented
New Zealand U20s in 2022, and has been touted as a long-term successor to
Ardie Savea
Ardie Suemalo Savea (born 14 October 1993) is a rugby union player who plays as a flanker or number 8 for in the ITM Cup, the Hurricanes in Super Rugby and international rugby for the New Zealand All Blacks. Savea was a member of New Zealand's ...
.
References
External links
itsrugby.co.uk profile
New Zealand rugby union players
Living people
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union number eights
Wellington rugby union players
Hurricanes (rugby union) players
Year of birth missing (living people)
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