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Full name | Viniana Naisaluwaki Riwai | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 6 June 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Rewa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rewa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2010– | Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Viniana Naisaluwaki Riwai (born 6 June 1991) is a Fijian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Rewa FC and the Fiji women's national team, and a rugby sevens player, who plays for the Fiji women's national team.
Riwai was educated at Labasa Sangam Primary School, Labasa Muslim College, and Suva Sangam College. [1] She later studied at the University of the South Pacific. [2]
Riwai took up soccer in high school and was selected for the Fiji women's football team for the 2011 Pacific Games. [2] She capped for Fiji at senior level during the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup. [1]
Riwai made her senior international debut for the Fiji women's national rugby sevens team at the 2013 China Women's Sevens. [3] She was named in the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens squad for Fiji. [4] She was a member of the Fijian team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [5] [6]
Riwai competed for Fiji in rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics and she won a bronze medal at the event. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Riwai was part of the Fijiana sevens team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [12] [13] [14] [15] She also featured at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. [16]
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