Ellia Green
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| Date of birth | 20 February 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Suva, Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ellia Green OAM (born 20 February 1993) is an Australian professional rugby union and rugby league player. They represent Australia in rugby sevens and have won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. They have played for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRLW.
Born in Suva, Fiji, Green moved to Australia's Central Coast at the age of five.[1] Green started Little Athletics at the age of six and excelled in sprinting. Green spent 10 years in athletics, representing Australia in the 100m, 200m and long jump at the World Junior Championships, until their cousins convinced them to try rugby sevens.[2] They first played for Warringah at the club level and debuted for Australia in February 2013.
Green scored an 80-metre try against Canada in the three-match exhibition series at the Gold Coast Sevens, a match broadcast live on Fox Sports. Within four hours, the try had been viewed over 200,000 times on the IRB Sevens World Series Facebook page.[citation needed] Green was recruited by the Australian Rugby Sevens program after attending a Pathway to Gold Talent ID camp in Melbourne in 2012. They are a sprinter, having previously represented Australia in athletics at the World School Games in Qatar in 2009 and scored the winning try after the siren against Canada at Twickenham in the Sevens World Series in May 2015. Representative Honours include Victoria.[3][4] They were a member of Australia's team at the 2016 Olympics, defeating New Zealand in the final to win the inaugural Olympic gold medal in the sport.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
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References[]
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: The truly inspiring story of Sevens star Ellia Green". Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Ellia Green". rugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ Nicholson, Larissa (28 November 2015). "From sprinting to rugby for Melbourne athlete". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 18 December 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ "Australia wins gold in women's rugby sevens". Sky News. 9 August 2016. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- ^ Newman, Beth (14 July 2016). "Rio Olympics: Australian Sevens teams announced". www.rugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Rio Olympics: Australia's men's and women's sevens squads unveiled". foxsports.com.au. 14 July 2016. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016: Olympic squads named by Australia for rugby sevens debut at Games". ABC.net.au. 14 July 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Australia's Olympic Sevens squads announced". Rugby News.net.au. 2016. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Australia name a mix of veterans, young guns for men's, women's Olympic sevens squads". ESPN.com.au. 15 July 2016. Archived from the original on 23 July 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Key players return as Australia name Olympic sevens squads". worldrugby.org. 2016. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
External links[]
- Ellia Green at Australian Rugby
- Ellia Green at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Ellia Green at the International Olympic Committee
- Ellia Green at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Warriors profile
- Ellia Green at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
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- Australian people of I-Taukei Fijian descent
- New Zealand Warriors (NRLW) players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players of Australia
- Australian female sprinters
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in rugby sevens
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Australia women's international rugby union players
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