Ruby Tui

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Ruby Tui
Date of birth (1991-12-13) 13 December 1991 (age 30)
Place of birthWellington, New Zealand
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
Canterbury ()
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
2012– New Zealand 12
Correct as of 4 August 2016
Medal record
Women's rugby sevens
Representing  New Zealand
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team competition
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Gold medal – first place 2018 San Francisco Team competition

Ruby Tui (born 13 December 1991) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She competed internationally when the national rugby sevens team won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics tournament.[1][2] She won the gold medal in rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]

Personal life[]

Tui was born in Wellington in 1991. Her father is Samoan and she is of Irish and Scottish heritage on her mother's side. Her parents separated when she was eight.[4] She was educated at Wellington East Girls' College and at John Paul II High School in Greymouth.[4][5]

Tui received a scholarship to study at Aoraki Polytechnic, where she completed a Diploma in Sport in 2013.[6]

Tui is openly gay.[7]

Career[]

Tui made her debut in 2012 in Fiji and has been a part of the national setup ever since. Tui has been described as a "powerful and aggressive prop".[8] She is a product of the Go4Gold campaign of the New Zealand Rugby Union.[9]

Achievements and honours[]

  • 2017, Canada Sevens Langford dream team[10]
  • 2019, HSBC Dream Team for the 2019 series[11]
  • 2019, World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year [12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Olympic Games Women's Sevens, Match 34". World Rugby. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  2. ^ "New Zealand names sevens teams for Rio Games". Stuff. 3 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  3. ^ "TUI Ruby".
  4. ^ a b "Women's Rugby Sevens Player Ruby Tui Thanks Sport for Helping Her Overcome Her Difficult Upbringing". The Australian Women's Weekly. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018 – via Now to Love.
  5. ^ Goile, Aaron; Voerman, Andrew (17 July 2021). "From Kerikeri to Invercargill: Where New Zealand's Tokyo Olympians went to school". Stuff. Retrieved 14 August 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "PM Schols: Rugby Sevens player Ruby Tui". High Performance Sport New Zealand. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  7. ^ Zeigler, Cyd (31 July 2021). "New Zealand, with many out players, wins COVID-delayed rugby gold". Outsports. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Ruby Tui". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  9. ^ "Ruby Tui". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  10. ^ "Canadians dominate Langford Dream Team". Americas Rugby News. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  11. ^ "World Rugby Sevens Players of the Year 2019 nominees announced". World Rugby. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  12. ^ "The World Rugby Awards 2019 — That's a wrap". World Rugby. Retrieved 4 November 2019.

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