| Full name | Veroeshka Jasmine Grain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 11 December 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Paarl, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Veroeshka Jasmine Grain (born 11 December 1990) is a South African rugby union and sevens player. [1] She competed for South Africa at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2]
Grain competed at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, [3] 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2023 WXV, [4] [5] [6] and 2023–24 SVNS. [7]
She is captain of the DHL Western Province Women. [8] She was a member of the South African sevens side that competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [9] [10]
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