Yoshikazu Fujita
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 Fujita in 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 8 September 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Fukuoka, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (14 st 2 lb; 198 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Waseda University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yoshikazu Fujita (藤田 慶和, born 8 September 1993 in Kyoto[1]) is a Japanese international rugby union player.
After impressing the coaches with his form playing for the Japan sevens team, Fujita was selected for the Japan national rugby union team and became the youngest ever player to play for Japan when he took the field against the UAE in May 2012 at the age of 18 years and 210 days in his hometown of Fukuoka.[2] On his debut as Japan youngest ever player he scored 6 tries.[3] However soon after his debut later that month he suffered a serious injury where he tore the ligaments in his left knee and was ruled out of action for 10 months.[4]
He returned to play in the Pacific Rugby Cup for Junior Japan in March 2013, and then returned to the Japan national team after an injury to Hirotoki Onozawa and scored tries on his return in all three of the matches he played in the Asian 5 Nations. After scoring his 11th try for Japan against Wales in June 2013, Fujita broke the record of George North for most tries scored as a teenager in international rugby.[5]
References
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[edit]- Yoshikazu Fujita at the World Rugby Men's Sevens Series
- Yoshikazu Fujita at ESPNscrum
- Yoshikazu Fujita at ItsRugby.co.uk
- Yoshikazu Fujita at Olympedia
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Japanese rugby union players
- Japan international rugby union players
- Waseda University Rugby Football Club players
- Rugby union fullbacks
- Saitama Wild Knights players
- Sportspeople from Fukuoka (city)
- Rugby union players from Fukuoka Prefecture
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players for Japan
- Sunwolves players
- Rugby union wings
- Mie Honda Heat players
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- Japan international rugby sevens players