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Asoiva Karpani

Australian rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ100606434
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Asoiva "Eva" Karpani (born 18 June 1996) is an Australian rugby union footballer who plays for the Queensland Reds in the Super W. She is an Australian Wallaroos representative and competed at the 2021 Rugby World Cup. She previously played for the NSW Waratahs as well as the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership.

Personal life

Karpani was born in Queensland and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the sister of Newcastle Knights NRLW player Simone Karpani.

Rugby union career

Karpani played for Onkaparinga and Brighton before representing the Australian Youth rugby sevens team at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival.

In 2017, she played for the University of Adelaide at the Aon University Sevens. In 2018, she moved to Sydney and joined the NSW Waratahs Super W team for 2019 season.

On July 13, 2019, she made her Test debut for Australia against Japan.

Karpani was named in Australia's squad for the 2022 Pacific Four Series in New Zealand. She was named in the Wallaroos squad for a two-test series against the Black Ferns at the Laurie O'Reilly Cup.

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The public source identifies “Asoiva Karpani” as australian rugby union player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Asoiva, Karpani and Australian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2021, 2013, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-06-18. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Asoiva, Karpani and Australian providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q100606434. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2021, 2013 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from Asoiva Karpani” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.