Michaela Blyde
| Date of birth | 29 December 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | New Plymouth, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michaela Blyde (born 29 December 1995) is a New Zealand professional rugby sevens player and Olympic gold medalist. In 2018, she won gold medals at both the Commonwealth Games and the Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Blyde debuted for New Zealand as a 17-year-old in the 2013 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship.[1]
She was the top try scorer of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, and was named 2017 World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year.[2][3] In 2018, Blyde was named World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year for the second year running.[4]
Personal life[]
Her younger brother, also plays rugby as a developmental trialist for the men's Sevens team and played for the Taranaki Bulls team in 2021.[5]
Achievements and honours[]
- 2017, Canada Sevens Langford dream team[6]
- 2017, World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year [7]
- 2018, World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year[7]
- 2018, Taranaki Sports Awards Sportswoman of the Year and Overall Sportsperson of the Year[8]
- 2019, Australian Women's Sevens performance tracker player of the round[9]
- 2021, Joint winner of Taranaki Daily News Person of the Year 2021 with Gayle Broughton[10]
References[]
- ^ "Taranaki's Michaela Blyde in Sevens heaven". Stuff.co.nz. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Michaela Blyde reaches her goals and some". Stuff.co.nz. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "New Zealand dominates World Rugby Awards". Radio New Zealand. 27 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "World Rugby Awards: Michaela Blyde best sevens player for second successive year". Stuff.co.nz. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ "Sevens rugby runs in the family for All Blacks hopeful Liam Blyde". Newshub. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ "Canadians dominate Langford Dream Team". Americas Rugby News. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ a b worldrugby.org. "World Rugby Sevens Players of the Year 2019 nominees announced". www.world.rugby. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ "Gold medallist takes home top Taranaki award". Stuff. 25 November 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ worldrugby.org. "DHL Performance Tracker - HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series | worldrugby.org/sevens-series". www.world.rugby. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ "Blacks Ferns Sevens stars Blyde and Broughton share Taranaki Daily News Person of the Year 2021". Stuff. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female rugby sevens players
- New Zealand international rugby sevens players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players of New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens
- World Rugby Awards winners
- Olympic rugby sevens players of New Zealand
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand
- Olympic medalists in rugby sevens
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