Jone Railomo

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Jone Railomo
File:Jone Railomo (cropped).jpg
Railomo at the 2007 Rugby World Cup
Full name Jone Railomo Taginayavusa
Date of birth (1981-02-26)26 February 1981
Place of birth Suva, Fiji
Date of death Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.
Place of death CWM Hospital, Suva
Height Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).
Weight 127 kg (20 st 0 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Prop
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)

2004 - 2004
2005 - 2006
2006 - 2007
2007 - 2008
2008 - 2009
2009
Piteia
Stallions
Vichy
Poitiers
Vichy
Poitiers
Ovalau
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2005 - 2008 Fiji 10 (0)

Jone Railomo Taginayavusa (born Suva, 26 February 1981 - 8 August 2009) was a Fijian rugby union player. He played as a prop.

Career

Railomo played in Fiji for Piteia. He moved to France, where he played for Racing Club Vichy for the 2005/06 season, then for Poitiers for 2006/07, returning to Racing Club Vichy for 2007/08. He was then assigned for Poitiers, for the 2008/09 season.

He gained his first cap for Fiji shorter after moving to France, on 10 June 2005, in the heavy loss to the All Blacks by 91-0. He then was inactive for a year due to injury. He was capped again after being selected for the Fijian squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals, playing all the five matches in the successful campaign of his country. Fiji's World Cup run finished in the quarter-finals in a 37-20 loss to South Africa.

Railomo earned four more caps since then, holding 10 caps for his national side.

Death

Railomo died in the early hours of 8 August 2009 after being hospitalized a few days earlier because of a sickness. He was 28.[1]

External links

References

  1. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.