Sako Makata
South African rugby union player
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Sakoyisa Makata (born 10 September 1998) is a South African rugby sevens player for the South Africa national team, where his regular position is a forward.
| Full name | Sakoyisa Makata | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 10 September 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 103 kg (227 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Stirling High School, East London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Biography
Makata attended Stirling High School in East London, where he played rugby for the school's first team, also representing Border at the Under-18 Craven Week in 2016.[1] He joined the SA Rugby Sevens Academy in 2017 and also played for Western Province U19 in the 2017 Under-19 Provincial Championship[2] and for Western Province U21 in the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship.[3]
After playing for the Sevens Academy side from 2017 to 2019, Makata was also included in the South Africa national sevens squad prior to the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series.[4] In February 2019, He was named in the Blitzboks squad for the Las Vegas Sevens,[1] and he made his debut in their opening match in that tournament, a 26–0 victory over Japan.[5]
Makata was part of the South African team that won their second Commonwealth Games gold medal in Birmingham in 2022.[6][7][8][9]
