| Date of birth | 5 December 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rinka Matsuda (born 5 December 2001) is a Japanese rugby union and sevens player. She competed for Japan at the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup and for the Japanese women's sevens team at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
In 2019, Matsuda was just a 17 year old third-year high school student when she made her international sevens debut. [1] [2] It was at the Japan leg of the 2018–19 Women's Sevens Series in Kitakyushu, she started in all three of Japan's matches. [1] [2]
She was initially expected to make her Olympic debut in her home city for the 2020 Olympics, but was replaced a week before the Games due to injury. [3] [4] [5]
In 2023, She was a member of the side that won a silver medal at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. [4] She competed for Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [6] [7]
In 2022, She scored a try in Japan's historic 29–10 win over Ireland ahead of the World Cup. [8] [9] She competed for Japan at the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. [10] [11]
Her father is former Japanese international, Tsutomu Matsuda, who represented Japan in fifteens and sevens. [1] [4]
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