Kiwi freak channels Lomu with 'phenomenal' try

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Stuff and is reproduced with permission

Portia Woodman's phenomenal 2nd effort against Wales was eerily akin to the legendary Jonah Lomu decorativeness erstwhile the precocious All Blacks large trampled England's Mike Catt astatine the 1995 men's Rugby World Cup successful South Africa.

Lomu moving implicit Catt successful Cape Town for 1 of his 4 tries successful the All Blacks' 45-29 semi-final triumph against England is 1 of the astir celebrated moments successful rugby's history.

He played astatine 3 World Cups successful 1995, 1999 and 2003 and finished with 15 tries but ne'er lifted the Webb Ellis Cup.

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Portia Woodman of New Zealand connected the tally against Wales astatine Waitakere Stadium. (Getty)

Woodman is playing astatine her 2nd women's World Cup aft her starring relation successful the Black Ferns' 2017 triumph and has been successful apical signifier successful the opening 2 matches of this year's tourney successful New Zealand.

The 31-year-old winger scored different 2 tries successful Sunday's 56-12 triumph implicit Wales astatine Auckland's Waitakere Stadium.

Her 2nd was sensational and executed successful Lomu's bulldozing benignant by bumping disconnected Jasmine Joyce, a respected, prime sevens player, and trampling implicit the flailing Welsh winger.

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Jonah Lomu beats the tackle of David Campese to people successful a 1995 Test successful Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald)

She bushed Welsh centre Megan Webb down the near flank for velocity and stepped wrong past fullback Kayleigh Power with easiness for the Black Ferns' 4th effort successful an 11 infinitesimal blitz successful the archetypal half.

Granted, Woodman could person passed to halfback Ariana Bayler successful abstraction who would person scored unopposed, but she didn't request to successful bid to bushed the hapless Welsh defence.

She has been compared to Lomu earlier due to the fact that of the style, velocity and powerfulness of her moving game, portion besides wearing the fabled No.11 jersey.

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In an interrogation with Stuff successful 2019, she said being likened to Lomu was a compliment.

"Just the thought that radical adjacent comparison maine to Jonah oregon anyone other is immense and it is conscionable hard to fig that retired successful my ain head. Because I inactive consciousness I americium a agelong mode disconnected to idiosyncratic who is arsenic large arsenic them. I instrumentality it arsenic a compliment you know," she said.

"I looked up to Jonah and my dad. I unluckily didn't cognize galore of the Black Ferns but present these young girls person these astonishing relation models – Sarah Goss [now Hirini], Kelly Brazier, Ruby Tui."

Woodman's hat-trick against Australia in their opening World Cup triumph astatine Eden Park the erstwhile weekend saw the Northlander walk different milestone.

She became the starring effort scorer astatine either the men's oregon women's World Cup, passing Lomu's grounds of 15.

With 3 against the Wallaroos, she went to 16 and is up to 18 aft a treble against Wales.

The Black Ferns caput to Woodman's location state for their last excavation lucifer against Scotland successful Whangarei connected Saturday.

Beating Wales ensured they qualified for the quarterfinals and that fixture volition besides beryllium successful Whangarei the pursuing Saturday.

Her woman Renee Wickliffe is besides successful the World Cup squad – they started connected other wings against Wales – and the Black Ferns' Northland stint volition beryllium a peculiar fortnight for their household and the team's different 2 Northland players, prop Krystal Murray and halfback Arihiana Marino-Tauhinu.

Woodman has lone played 21 Tests, scoring 32 tries, since her debut for the Black Ferns successful 2013 due to the fact that of her commitments with sevens.

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