Cory Jane

Cory Jane

Full name	Cory Steven Jane
Date of birth	8 February 1983 (1983-02-08) (age 28)
Place of birth	Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	88 kg (190 lb)
School	Heretaunga College
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Fullback/wing
New Zealand No.	1080
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2003–2004 2005–	Hawke's Bay Wellington	26	(81)
Super Rugby
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2007–	Hurricanes	57	(70)
correct as of 3 October 2011.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2008–	New Zealand	29	(45)
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
	NZ Maori

Medal record
Competitor for  New Zealand
Men's Rugby
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2006 Melbourne	Rugby 7's

Cory Steven Jane (born 8 February 1983) is a New Zealand international rugby union player.

He first played for the All Blacks in 2008 and plays as a winger. In 2011 Jane was selected into the Tri Nations team as injury cover. A few weeks later he made the Rugby World cup squad of 30 after tight competition in the back 3.^[1]

Career

Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Jane plays for Wellington in the Air New Zealand Cup and for the Wellington Hurricanes in the Super Rugby (formerly Super 12/14) competition. He has previously played for Hawke's Bay and was in the New Zealand team that won the Rugby Sevens gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He represented the New Zealand Maori rugby union team in 2006.^[1]

Jane was 3rd-equal on the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup leading try scorer list with 6 tries, behind Richard Kahui (8 tries) and Sitiveni Sivivatu (7 tries), both from Waikato.

Winner of the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup with the All Blacks! Jane scored his only try of the tournament in the pool match against France and was named man of the match in the semi-final against Australia.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Player profile at allblacks.com

External links

• Profile on the Wellington Lions Official Website
• Statistics from Fox Sports
• ESPN Scrum profile

Persondata
Name	Jane, Cory
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	8 February 1983
Place of birth	Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Date of death
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