Connor Garden-Bachop, New Zealand rugby union player, dies

Highlanders outside back died on Monday following a ‘medical event’Garden-Bachop represented the Māori All Blacks in two Tests in 2022

Otago Highlanders outside back Connor Garden-Bachop died on Monday at the age of 25 following a medical event, New Zealand Rugby has said.

Garden-Bachop, who made his Highlanders debut in 2021, was on the team’s roster this season but parted ways with the Super Rugby Pacific club after their latest campaign finished in the quarter-finals.