Noa Nadruku
Nadruku in 2014
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Personal information
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19 September 1967 Namatakula, Fiji |
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Playing information
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| Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (15 st 6 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby union
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| Position | Three-quarter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby league
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| Position | Wing, Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Noa Nadruku (born 19 September 1967 in Namatakula, Fiji) is a Fijian former rugby footballer of the 1980s and 1990s. After representing Fiji in rugby union, he switched to play rugby league in Australia for the Canberra Raiders (92 games between 1993 and 1997) and was named as one of the best 25 players for the Raiders' 25-year anniversary.
His usual position was Wing and in addition to winning the 1994 Grand Final with the Raiders, in 1993 and 1996 he was the top try-scorer in the League. The "Noa Nadruku Trophy" is awarded to the Australia Fijian Rugby League's player of the year.
Nadruku first played international rugby union for Fiji in 1988 and played a total of five games for his country between then and 1991.
In 1993, while playing in the Rugby League World Sevens for Fiji, he was spotted by Canberra Raiders coach Tim Sheens and invited to train with the team. He had a slow start to the 1993 NSWRL season, but against Cronulla in the fifth round Nadruku scored two tries, setting up several others. Against Manly-Warringah Nadruku created even more of an impression with strong defence to complement his powerful running. By the end of the year Nadruku had scored a club record 22 tries in just twenty games - being the first player to score more than one try per game in a full season since Larry Corowa had scored 24 tries in 22 games for Balmain in 1978.
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