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Jessica Ho Wai-on (born 12 May 1992) is a Hong Kong rugby union player. She competed for Hong Kong in their first World Cup appearance in 2017. [1] [2]
Ho graduated from the University of Exeter in 2014, she studied Sports Science. She made her debut for Hong Kong against Fiji in 2016. [3] In 2018 she was selected for Hong Kong's end-of-year tour of Spain and Wales. [4] [5] Ho toured the Netherlands in 2019 and helped Hong Kong win their first test series in Europe. [6] [7] [8]
In 2019 she featured for the Hong Kong sevens team at the Asia Sevens Qualifiers and at the Repechage tournament in Monaco. [9] [10] She was named in the squad that played in a two-test series against Kazakhstan in December 2022. [11] [12] [13]
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