 Naqasau in 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 4 August 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Rusila Nagasau (born 4 August 1987) is a Fijian rugby union player. She plays rugby sevens for Fiji and was also a representative soccer player. [1] She was included in the squad for the 2016 France Women's Sevens. [2]
Nagasau was instrumental in Fiji qualifying for the 2016 Olympics when she scored four tries in the 2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship final against Samoa. [3] She was named in the sevens squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics alongside cousin and captain Ana Maria Roqica. [4] [5] [6]
Nagasau represented Fiji at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [7] [8] She won a bronze medal at the event. [9] [10] [11]
Nagasau was a batonbearer for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay when the baton came to her island in February 2022. [12] She was later a part of the Fijiana sevens team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [13] [14] [15] [16] In September she captained the team at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. [17]
Nagasau was named on the bench in the warm up match against Canada ahead of the World Cup. [18] [19] She was selected for the Fijiana squad to the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. [20] [21]
On 9 August 2025, she was named in the Fijiana side to the Women's Rugby World Cup in England. [22] [23]
