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Keith Ross Lowen (born 14 July 1974) is a former New Zealand
rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
player. A
second five-eighth Second five-eighths, or sometimes second five-eighth, is a name used in New Zealand to refer the rugby union position commonly known elsewhere as the inside centre or number 12. It traditionally described a playmaking type of 12 with good passin ...
, Lowen represented
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at a provincial level for most of his career, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the
All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ...
, in 2002. He played one international for the All Blacks against
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. Lowen scored a hat-trick for the Chiefs against the
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in a
Super 12 Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Building on various Southern Hem ...
match in 2001.


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1974 births Living people Bay of Plenty rugby union players Blues (Super Rugby) players Cheetahs (rugby union) players Chiefs (rugby union) players Expatriate rugby union players in Japan Expatriate rugby union players in South Africa Green Rockets Tokatsu players New Zealand expatriate rugby union players New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Japan New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in South Africa New Zealand international rugby union players New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent New Zealand rugby union players People educated at St Peter's School, Cambridge Rugby union centres Rugby union players from Huntly, New Zealand Waikato rugby union players {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1970s-stub