Ukraine women's national rugby sevens team

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Union National Rugby Federation of Ukraine
Coach(es)Viacheslav Kozmenko [1]
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The Ukraine women's sevens team competes in the European Women's Sevens Championship and occasionally in other competitions. Ukraine were runners-up at the 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Trophy and were promoted to the Grand Prix Series for 2019. [2]

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Current squad

Squad to European Women's Sevens Series: June 23–24, 2018 at Dnipro, Ukraine [3]

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Mariia Rashchuk Kyiv
Alice Ulyankina
Nataliia Mazur
Oksana Nikoryak
Maryna Borodina Odesa
Anastasiia Bardyka
Olena Chebotar
Tetiana Tarasiuk
Anna Zhygunova
Oksana Pasichko
Olga Surkova
Yuliia Ivashchnko Kharkiv

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