{"id":55189,"date":"2025-10-01T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/55189\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:46:10","slug":"all-blacks-centurion-maa-nonu-breaks-own-record-as-oldest-player-to-score-try-in-french-top-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/55189\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks centurion Ma\u2019a Nonu breaks own record as oldest player to score try in French Top 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nonu previously set the record for being the competition\u2019s oldest try scorer when he crossed the line in Toulon\u2019s quarter-final win over Castres in June.<\/p>\n

The round four clash was his first appearance for the club this season after featuring in preseason fixtures.<\/p>\n

In March, Nonu made history as the oldest player to take the field in a French Top 14 match at the age of 42.<\/p>\n

He signed a one-year contract extension with Toulon in July, taking him through to 2026.<\/p>\n

The two-time World Cup winner returned to Toulon this year after stints with the club between 2015-18 and 2020-21.<\/p>\n

In a statement after his extension, the club said: \u201cA legend of the club and international rugby, the All Black centre will continue his extraordinary career for another season in the colours of Toulon.<\/p>\n

\u201cA true source of inspiration for the rest of the Rouge & Noir squad, his return to the top level has been unanimously welcomed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonu made 103 test appearances for the All Blacks, the last of which came in the 2015 Rugby World Cup final triumph over Australia.<\/p>\n

He had 174 Super Rugby caps with the Hurricanes, Blues and Highlanders and has also played for clubs in Japan and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nonu previously set the record for being the competition\u2019s oldest try scorer when he crossed the line in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22256,5263,806,8136,38501,13912,46596,4596,11775,78,3223,46597,111,139,46598,69,34962,5429,9617,1974,22257,213,61,3010,46599],"class_list":["post-55189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-22256","tag-all","tag-as","tag-blacks","tag-breaks","tag-broken","tag-centurion","tag-competition","tag-french","tag-in","tag-legend","tag-maa","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nonu","tag-nz","tag-oldest","tag-own","tag-player","tag-record","tag-score","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-top","tag-try"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}