Date of birth | 4 January 1977 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 August 2018 41) | (aged||||||||||||||||
School | Sunshine Coast Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Mieke Jane Fortune (née Gladwin; 4 January 1977 – 18 August 2018) was an Australian former rugby union player. She made her test debut as a Lock for Australia in 1996 against the Black Ferns in Sydney. [1] [2]
Fortune played ten tests for Australia between 1996 and 2002. She played club rugby for the University of Queensland and also represented Queensland. [1] She competed for the Wallaroos at the 1998 and 2002 Rugby World Cup's. [2] [3]
After retiring from rugby, Fortune and her husband, Graham, moved to the Sunshine Coast and started a wholesale production nursery. [1]
On 18 August 2018, Fortune died from breast cancer, she was honoured with a moment’s silence before the Wallaroos and Black Ferns first match for the O'Reilly Cup. [4] [1]
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