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Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
Canterbury ()
National sevens team
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 lesbian.[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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