Karl Te Nana
| Birth name | Karl Solomon Te Nana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 15 July 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Palmerston North, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 97 kg (213 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Karl Solomon Te Nana (born 15 July 1975) is a New Zealand rugby player.
A professional rugby union player, Te Nana won a gold medal as part of the New Zealand Seven's rugby team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[1] He has scored 113 tries for the New Zealand rugby sevens team. He played for North Harbour in the National Provincial Championship and spent the 2000 season with the Otago Highlanders in Super Rugby (then known as the Super 12).
He currently plays for the Point Chevalier Pirates in the Auckland Rugby League's Phelan Shield.[2]
Television
Now retired, Te Nana hosts a weekly rugby show on Sky TV in New Zealand called "This Given Sunday" with former All Black halfback Steve Devine. Also a regular world rugby commentator on the 7's World Series. He hosts, reports and commentates on Super Rugby, college rugby and provincial rugby for Sky TV in New Zealand.
References
- ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
- ^ "Forget about the last game, get ready for another". The Sunday Star-Times. 30 May 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- 1975 births
- Living people
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand rugby league players
- North Harbour rugby union players
- Point Chevalier Pirates players
- Chiefs (rugby union) players
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Sportspeople from Palmerston North
- People educated at Te Aute College
- Rugby sevens players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players of New Zealand
- New Zealand international rugby sevens players
- Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens