| Date of birth | 15 June 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Canmore, Alberta, Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Krissy Scurfield OLY (born 15 June 2003) is a Canadian rugby union player. She won a silver medal in the rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [1]
A student at the University of Victoria, Scurfield was the only Canadian woman named to the World Rugby Series’ Dream Team in 2022 and was the Canadian’s top try scorer despite only featuring in half the games. [2] Scurfield was selected to play for Canada at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in rugby sevens. [3]
Scurfield competed for Canada at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. [4] [5] They placed sixth overall after losing to Fiji in the fifth place final. [6] [7]
Chosen for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, [8] she suffered an internal laceration during the group stages and missed the rest of the tournament. [9] [10] The team went on to win a silver medal. [11] [12]
Scurfields father, Allan Scurfield was the 1984 Canadian National high-board diving champion who competed with Canada's National Team at both the Commonwealth and Pan-American Games. [13]
The Australia women's national rugby sevens team, are the Australia national rugby sevens team of women. They were champions of the inaugural Women's Sevens World Cup in 2009. The team plays in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as one of the "core teams" on the world tour, of which they have been crowned Champions three times. The team also played in the preceding competition to the current world series, the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup. In 2016, they won the inaugural gold medal at the Rio Summer Olympics.
Scott Curry is a New Zealand professional rugby union player who plays as a forward for the New Zealand national sevens team.
Raijieli Daveua is a Fijian rugby sevens player. She was selected as a member of the Fiji women's national rugby sevens team to the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Michaela Blyde is a New Zealand professional rugby sevens player and a double Olympic gold medalist. She was the first female player to win back-to-back World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year titles, in 2017 and 2018. Blyde holds the record for the most tries by a New Zealand women sevens player in a single match and also the record for most tries in a single fixture when she scored five tries against England in Langford in 2017. Blyde has won gold medals at the 2018 Sevens World Cup, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics and six Sevens titles. In December 2023 She was the second woman to score 200 tries in the HSBC international seven series.
Waisea Nacuqu is a Fiji national rugby sevens team player. Nacuqu is known as "game breaker" and has on many occasions scored match winning tries. He is well known for his speed and scoring tries.
Sevuloni Mocenacagi is a Fijian rugby player who plays as a forward or centre in the Fiji national rugby sevens team. According to Gareth Baber, the coach of the Fiji Sevens team: "Last year he [Mocenacagi] was a forward and this year we're using him in that centre position. He's a threat every time he gets the ball, he's a big powerful runner." Mocenacagi comes from Nukuilau, Navosa on the Island of Viti Levu.
Impi Brecher Visser is a South African rugby sevens player for the South Africa national team in the World Rugby Sevens Series. In sevens he usually plays as a forward, but is a centre in fifteen-a-side rugby.
Olivia Apps is a Canadian rugby union and sevens player. Olivia was raised in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada and was introduced to rugby in Grade 10 in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
Keyara Wardley is a Canadian rugby union player, in the sevens discipline.
Ratu Josua Vakurunabili is a Fijian rugby union player.
Ana Maria Naimasi is a Fijian Olympic bronze medal-winning rugby union player.
Reapi Ulunisau is a Fijian rugby player. She represents Fiji internationally in rugby sevens and fifteens. She won a bronze medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and a silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Lavena Cavuru is a Fijian rugby sevens player. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Sesenieli Donu is a Fijian rugby sevens player. She competed in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Chloe Daniels is a Canadian rugby sevens and rugby union player currently playing for Queen's University Women's Rugby Team in Ontario, Canada and the Canadian Women's rugby sevens team. Before playing for the university team, Daniels played for the Aurora Barbarians.
Fancy Bermudez Chavez is a Canadian rugby union player. She competed for the Canadian sevens team at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens, and made her international debut for the fifteens team in 2023.
Piper Logan is a Canadian rugby sevens player. She was part of the Canada team which won silver medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2023 Pan American Games.
Adi Vani Buleki is a Fijian rugby sevens player.
Akuila Rokolisoa is a professional rugby union player who plays as a back. Born in Fiji, he represents New Zealand at international level after qualifying on residency grounds.
Taylor Perry is a Canadian rugby union and rugby sevens player.
