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Born | Port Hedland, Western Australia | 23 March 1983|||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (11 st 5 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Touch | |||||||||||||||||||||
Team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Tavo (born 23 March 1983) is a former Australian triple international. She has represented Australia in rugby league, rugby sevens and touch. She has captained the Australian women's sevens team. [1] She competed for Australia at the 2009 and 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens. [2] She also represented Fiji at the Rio Olympics. [3] [4]
Tavo was part of the Champion Australian Women's Touch team at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Scotland. [5] In 2006, she became BHP Billiton's first female train driver. [6] She is also the first Rotuman female to play rugby internationally. [7]
In 2015, she changed allegiance and played for the Fijiana team in the Oceania 7's helping them to win the tournament as well as qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. [8] [3] [4]
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