Roger Randle
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Roger Quentin Randle (born 15 May 1974 in Hastings, New Zealand
Hastings, New Zealand
The city of Hastings is a major urban settlement in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand, and it is the largest settlement by population in Hawke's Bay. Hastings city is the administrative centre of the Hastings District...

) is a New Zealand rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 footballer. He played as a wing. He played centre at Rugby Parma F. C. (Italy).

Career

Randle played for the Wellington Hurricanes (1996–1997), Waikato Chiefs (1998–2003 and 2005–2006) in the Super 14
Super 14
Super Rugby is the largest and pre-eminent professional Rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere...

 competition and for CS Bourgoin-Jallieu
CS Bourgoin-Jallieu
CS Bourgoin-Jallieu is a French rugby union club currently competing in the second level of the French league system in the Pro D2. The club have been runners-up in the French championship and the Challenge Yves du Manoir competitions, and have won the Challenge Cup.Founded in 1906 as "Club...

 (France, 2004–2005). He was top try scorer in the 2002 super 12 season with 13 tries and in 2002 NPC season with 12 tries. He represented the New Zealand Colts in 1995 and he also represented the New Zealand Māori rugby union team
New Zealand Maori rugby union team
New Zealand Māori is a rugby union team that traditionally plays teams touring New Zealand. A prerequisite for playing in this team is that the player is to have Māori whakapapa or genealogy. In the past this rule was not strictly applied. In the past non-Māori players who looked Māori were often...

 in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. He won two Commonwealth gold medals with New Zealand 7's in 1998 Kuala Lumpur and 2002 in Manchester. He made his debut for the All Blacks
All Blacks
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 in November 2001 against the Ireland rugby team.

Statistics

Renowned tryscorer Randle is the highest tryscorer in Chiefs history with (38),
  • most tries in a Ranfurly Shield season 14,
  • most tries in a Waikato season 16,
  • most tries in a Hawkes Bay season 17.

  • Hawkes Bay (1994–1997)
  • Wellington Hurricanes (1996–1997)
  • Waikato (1998–2004,2006)
  • Waikato Chiefs( 1998–2004)

  • New Zealand U21 (1995)
  • New Zealand 7's (1995–2002)
  • New Zealand Maori (1995–2003)
  • New Zealand All Blacks (2001–2002)

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