Olympic rugby medalist Josaia Raisuqe of Fiji has died at 30
- Josaia Raisuqe, a 30-year-old Fiji international rugby player, died in a road accident involving a train in France on Thursday, May 8, 2025.
- Raisuqe's death followed a career playing in France since 2015, including stints at Stade Francais, Nevers, and Castres Olympique, where he joined in 2021.
- He was a Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalist with the Fiji rugby sevens team, scoring in pool play and starting in the final against France, and played as a winger and flanker for Castres.
- Castres Olympique expressed mourning, calling Raisuqe a 'radiant boy on and off the field' and a pillar of the Fijian community, while extending condolences to his family and fiancée.
- The accident led to the postponement of a Top 14 match, and Castres requested respect for Raisuqe's family during the club's period of mourning.
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"He was a radiant boy": the Fijian wingman of Castres, Josaia Raisuqe, died of a car accident
While the 30-year-old rugbyman was on his way to training this Thursday morning, his car was hit by a train at a crossing in the municipality of Saïx, where the Olympic Castres training centre is located.
No chance! Olympic hero killed in train crash
Not a year ago, at the Olympic Games in Paris, he became a hero in the sign of the Five Rings, a legend of his native Fiji – but now there is only more horror, sadness and disbelief about his too early death: at just 30 years of age, the 7-Rugby-Silver Josaia Raisuqe died in a tragic railway accident in south-western France! As the sports newspaper "L-Equipe" reports, the accident occurred on Thursday morning, when Raisuqe was on his way to trai…
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