| Full name | Irene Awino Otieno | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | March 26, 1986 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||
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Irene Awino Otieno (born March 26, 1986) is a Kenyan rugby sevens player. She represented the Kenya's women's sevens team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [1] She was in Kenya's squad that played at the 2016 France Women's Sevens. [2]
The Kenya national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Commonwealth Games. Kenya recorded its first tournament win in the World Rugby Sevens Series after beating Fiji at the 2016 Singapore Sevens. Kenya has also been successful in the Rugby World Cup Sevens, reaching the semifinals in 2009 and again in 2013.
Homeboyz Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Nairobi, Kenya, that competes in the Kenya Cup, Eric Shirley Shield, Enterprise Cup and Mwamba Cup. Formed in 2009, Homeboyz also has a women's team that competes in the Kenya Rugby Football Union women's league every year. Both the men's and women's teams also compete in the Kenya National Sevens Circuit that happens annually. Their main home ground is Jamhuri Park.
The women's rugby sevens tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held in Brazil, hosted at the Deodoro Stadium, a temporary outdoor stadium constructed as part of the Deodoro Modern Pentathlon Park in Rio de Janeiro. The tournament was held from 6 August to 8 August 2016, starting with group matches before finishing with the medal ceremony on 8 August.
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