Joseph Henry Kayes is a professional

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

player. He was born on 3 January 1991 in New Zealand. He is of Samoan descent through his mother, as both his maternal grandparents were born in Samoa. Kayes played for the NZ Senior Men's Water Polo team in 2008. In 2009 he went to Perth where he played for the

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Mariners Men's Water Polo team which won the Australian National League. In October 2009, he was playing water polo as a full professional at the

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club in Hungary where he stayed for four seasons. He was mentored as a

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by Tamas Molnar, a three time Olympic Gold medal winner for Hungary. Joe won 2 Hungarian Cup Gold medals with Szeged along with 3 bronze medals in the Hungarian National League. In 2014, he played again for Fremantle in Australia. 2014/2015 – he now plays for OSC in Budapest, once again in the Hungarian National League. In 2015, he obtained Australian citizenship and was then approved to play for

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at the

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Living people 1991 births New Zealand male water polo players New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Australia Australian male water polo players Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic water polo players for Australia New Zealand emigrants to Australia New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent {{NewZealand-waterpolo-bio-stub