| Born | 22 January 2001 | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Madison Ashby (born 22 January 2001) is an Australian rugby union player. She has represented Australia at sevens rugby at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games and was named co-captain in 2025.
Ashby grew up playing league with boys before switching to rugby union when she was about 12. [1] A year later she was competing in an open women’s competition. [1]
Ashby debuted for Australia at the USA Women's Sevens in Glendale, Colorado in 2019. [2] [3]
She was named in the Australia squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [4] [5] [6] The team came second in the pool round but then lost to Fiji 14–12 in the quarterfinals. [7]
Ashby won a gold medal with the Australian sevens team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [8] [9] [10] She was also a member of the Australian side that won the Sevens Rugby World Cup held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022. [11] [12]
At the beginning of 2024, she re-signed with the Australian sevens program until the end of 2026. [3] In May that year, she sustained a knee injury at the Singapore Sevens which hampered her chances of going to the Paris Olympics. [13] [14] She ended her 484-day absence when she returned to the pitch for the ACT Brumbies at the Next Gen Sevens. [13]
Ashby was named as co-captain of the sevens side, together with Isabella Nasser for the 2025–26 SVNS season. [15] [16]
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