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| Full name | Christopher Fatu Vui | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 February 1993 Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 kg (265 lb; 18 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Massey High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christopher Fatu Vui (born 11 February 1993) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for Premiership Rugby club Bristol Bears. Born in New Zealand, he represents Samoa at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds.
Club career
[edit]During the 2015 Super Rugby season he made 2 appearances for the Auckland-based Blues franchise.[1]
Vui played for Worcester Warriors. He moved to Bristol ahead of the 2017/18 season.
In April 2025, Vui was issued with a four-year ban by World Rugby backdated to September 2023 for an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for nandrolone, although this decision was not publicly known until July 2026 when his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport was announced as unsuccessful.[2] The ban explained Vui's abscence from professional rugby as the ruling revealed he had been under a provisional suspension due to the failed test since September 2023.[3]
International career
[edit]He represented New Zealand Under 20 in the 2013 IRB Junior World Championship in France.[4]
He earned his first cap for Samoa during the 2016 November internationals. Vui became the youngest captain in World Rugby when he skippered Samoa in 2017.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Chris Vui Blues Player Profile". Blues Rugby. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ Cresswell, Matthew (16 July 2026). "Former Bristol lock Vui 'devastated' by doping ban". BBC Sport.
- ↑ Thomas, Steffan (16 July 2026). "World Cup captain who disappeared from rugby handed four-year drugs ban". Wales Online.
- ↑ "NZU20 squad named for IRB World Champs in France". All Blacks.com. 25 April 2013. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
External links
[edit]- Chris Vui at European Professional Club Rugby
- Chris Vui at Premiership Rugby (archived)
- Chris Vui at ESPNscrum (archived)
- Chris Vui at ItsRugby.fr (in French)
- Chris Vui at All.Rugby
- Chris Vui at RugbyDatabase.co.nz
- 1993 births
- Living people
- New Zealand rugby union players
- Rugby union locks
- Rugby union flankers
- Rugby union number eights
- North Harbour rugby union players
- Blues (Super Rugby) players
- People educated at Massey High School
- Samoa international rugby union players
- Worcester Warriors players
- Bristol Bears players
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in England
- 2019 Rugby World Cup players
- 2023 Rugby World Cup players
- Doping cases in rugby union
- Samoan sportspeople in doping cases