{{short description|Cook Islands international rugby league footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{EngvarB|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox rugby league biography | name = Kane Epati | fullname = Kane Epati | image = | image_size = 250px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1981|8|13}} | birth_place = Samoa | height = {{height|ft=6|in=0}} | weight = {{convert|100|kg|stlb|abbr=on|order=flip}} | position = {{rlp|CE}} | club1 = {{nowrap|Hull Kingston Rovers}} | year1start = 2005 | year1end = | appearances1 = 30 | tries1 = 15 | goals1 = 0 | fieldgoals1 = 0 | points1 = 60 | club2 = Doncaster | year2start = 2006 | year2end = | appearances2 = 20 | tries2 = 9 | goals2 = 0 | fieldgoals2 = 0 | points2 = 36 | club3 = Dewsbury Rams | year3start = 2007 | year3end = 09 | appearances3 = 51 | tries3 = 37 | goals3 = 0 | fieldgoals3 = 0 | points3 = 148 | teamA = {{nowrap|Cook Islands}} | yearAstart = 2004 | yearAend = | appearancesA = 1 | triesA = 0 | goalsA = 0 | fieldgoalsA = 0 | pointsA = 0 | ru_club1 = {{nowrap|Castres Olympique}} | ru_year1start = | ru_year1end = | ru_appearances1 = 0 | ru_tries1 = 0 | ru_goals1 = 0 | ru_fieldgoals1 = 0 | ru_points1 = 0 | source = <ref>{{Rugby league records|title=Kane Epati|id=4372}}</ref> }} '''Kane Epati''' (born 13 August 1981 in Samoa) is a former semi-professional rugby league footballer. Originally a rugby union player in his native Samoa, he played Rugby league for Dewsbury Rams in Championship 1 in England following stints at Doncaster Lakers, Hull Kingston Rovers, where he was a non-playing member of the Northern Rail Cup–winning squad in 2005. He has Samoan-New Zealander ancestry.{{fact|date=January 2024}}
Epati represented the Cook Islands at international level, and played in the team which won the 2004 Pacific Rim tournament.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pacific Rim Grand Final Cook Islands v NZ Maori |url=http://www.rugbyleaguenz.com/news.php?id=224 |website=Rugby League in New Zealand |access-date=1 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041030202114/http://www.rugbyleaguenz.com/news.php?id=224 |archive-date=30 October 2004}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110720153729/http://www.dewsburyrams.co.uk/team_member.php?id=44 Dewsbury Rams Profile] *[http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/kane-epati/summary.html Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org]
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