| Date of birth | 19 April 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Whakatāne, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Mererangi Paul (sister) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mahina Paul (born 19 April 2001) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Paul has represented New Zealand in touch rugby and at the Youth Olympic Games for rugby sevens in 2018. [2]
Paul made her Black Ferns Sevens international debut at the South Africa Sevens in Cape Town in 2019. [3] She was one of three players who were handed professional contracts earlier that year. [2] She later featured at the 2020 New Zealand Sevens in Hamilton. [3] [4]
Paul was named as a travelling reserve for the Black Ferns Sevens squad to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [5] [6]
On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been selected as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Rugby Sevens team for the Olympic sevens competition| Paris Olympics. [7] The team won the gold medal, defeating Canada 19–12 in the final. [8]
