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| Date of birth | 9 May 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Pretoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nadine Roos (born 9 May 1996) is a South African rugby union and sevens player.
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Nadine Roos (born 9 May 1996) is a South African rugby union and sevens player.
Roos was abandoned by her mother at a pre-school crèche in South Africa, her grandmother traveled 160 miles in order to look after her. [2] She was a hurdler and earned herself a bursary at the University of Pretoria where she was introduced to rugby. [2]
Roos made the 2021 CrossFit Games. [3] [4]
Roos made her international sevens debut in the Dubai tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. [2]
In 2018, Roos competed for South Africa in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Queensland. [5] She later featured in the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco where they finished 14th overall. [6] [2]
Roos was selected for the South African women's sevens team again and played in the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. [7] [8] [9] She was named in South Africa's women's fifteens team for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. [10]
In 2023, she was named in the Springbok women's sevens side for the Dubai Women's Sevens. [11] She was a member of the South African side that competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [12] [13]
In September 2024, she was confirmed as part of South Africa's fifteens squad for the 2024 WXV 2 tournament. [14] [15]
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