Colby Fainga'a

For rugby fans the Fainga'a name conjures the whole brotherhood, and Colby is very much cut from that hard-working forward cloth. Out of Queanbeyan in New South Wales and shaped at St Edmund's College in Canberra, he now grinds it out for Lyon in France's Top 14. What I like is the willingness to cross the world and test himself in one of the toughest, most physical leagues going. A southern-hemisphere product diving into the trench warfare of French rugby needs real conviction. As one member of a family that bet its whole life on the sport, he is the kind of unglamorous, team-first player I always find easy to admire.

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Name (English)

Colby Fainga'a

Name (Japanese)

コルビー・ファインガア

Reading

こるびー・ふぁいんがあ

Born

March 31, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Occupation

rugby union player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

University

St Edmund's College Canberra

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/colbyfaingaa/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colby%20Fainga'a
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5142022

Tags

• New South Wales
• rugby union player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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