Nigel Hunt
New Zealand rugby union player
Nigel Hunt (born 14 May 1983 in Apia, Samoa) is a New Zealand rugby union player who most famously played for the New Zealand Sevens team. He achieved a Gold Medal along with his NZ Sevens teammates at the 2006 Commonwealth games in Melbourne. Hunt was a member of both NZ Sevens squads that won the Sevens World Circuits in 2006 and 2007.
He currently plays for French Top 14 Rugby Union club Grenoble, having previously turned out for New Zealand National Provincial Championship side Bay of Plenty and Wellington.
“Nigel Hunt” enters the record as new Zealand rugby union player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nigel, Hunt and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3341356. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2006 and 2007.
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