Rebecca Tavo
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| Date of birth | 23 March 1983 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Port Hedland, Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Tavo (born 23 March 1983 in Port Hedland, Western Australia) is an Australian, dual international, rugby union and Touch football player. She is the former captain for the Australian women's sevens team.[1] She played at the 2009 and 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[2]
Biography
Tavo was part of the Champion Australian Women's Touch team at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Scotland.[3] In 2006, she became BHP Billiton's first female train driver.[4] She is also the first Rotuman female to play rugby internationally.[5]
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.[6][7][8]
References
- ^ UR7s.com (17 November 2011). "New Australia Captain, Rebecca Tavo working hard on and off the field". Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Australia well placed to defend World Cup". ESPN Scrum. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ Australian Rugby Union (2012). "2012 Meet the Ambassadors". Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ Greg Growden (13 March 2009). "Driven Tavo makes tracks to training". Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Rotuman Sports".
- ^ Mannan, Justine (7 November 2015). "Tavo: Team Can Do Awesome Things". Fiji Sun.com.fj. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ Bola-Bari, Vuniwaqa (16 November 2015). "Road to Rio". Fiji Times. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ Ratulevu, Pate (16 July 2016). "Rio Olympics: Fiji Sevens Teams Announced". Official Website of Fiji Rugby Union. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
External links
- This article has no link in Wikidata
- Player Profile
- Touch Football Profile
- Rebecca Tavo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1983 births
- Australian female rugby union players
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- Australian people of Rotuman descent
- Living people
- Touch footballers
- Rugby union in Rotuma
- People from Port Hedland, Western Australia
- Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players of Fiji
- Fiji international rugby sevens players
- Fijian female rugby union players
- Sportswomen from Western Australia
- Female rugby sevens players
- Australian female rugby league players
- Australia women's national rugby league team players
- Fiji international women's rugby sevens players