| Date of birth | October 6, 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Natasha Shangwe Olson-Thorne (born 6 October 1992) is a Hong Kong rugby union player. She represented Hong Kong at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland, Hong Kong's first World Cup appearance. Olson-Thorne created history when she scored Hong Kong's first World Cup try in their match against Wales. [1] [2]
Olson-Thorne began playing rugby at the age of 15 while attending Sha Tin College. [3] She made her international debut for the Hong Kong women's national rugby union team in 2010. [3] [4] She then made her sevens debut at the 2011 Hong Kong Women's Sevens. [5] [4] [3]
In 2015 she graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Health. [3] [4] She captained the sevens team for the first time at the 2016 Hong Kong Women's Sevens, it was her sixth appearance at the tournament. [3] Olson-Thorne was also in the sevens team vying for a spot at the 2016 Summer Olympics via a repechage tournament in Dublin. [6] She was in the 2021 sevens squad that 'narrowly' missed their chance to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. [7]
She co-captained the Hong Kong sevens team at the 2021 Asia Women's Sevens Series, it was a qualifier event for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens. [8] [9] However, they lost to Japan in the semifinal and missed their chance. [10]
Olson-Thorne was named in the fifteens squad that played in a two-test series against Kazakhstan in December 2022. [11] [12] [13]
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