Amaia Erbina (born 13 March 1997) is a Spanish

rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

player. She was selected for the Spanish sevens team for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

. She was also part of the squad that won the

2016 Women's Rugby Sevens Final Olympic Qualification Tournament The 2016 Rugby World Women's Sevens Olympic Repechage Tournament was a qualification tournament for the women's rugby sevens 2016 Summer Olympics which was held on 25–26 June 2016. The tournament used a round-robin format, with the top team qu ...

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for a place at the

Olympics The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competit ...

. Erbina competed at the

2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens The 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the eighth and final edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens organised by World Rugby. The 2022 tournament, comprising 24 men's and 16 women's teams as previously, was played over three days in one venue in Sep ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Erbina, Amaia 1997 births Living people Spain international women's rugby sevens players Rugby union players from the Basque Country (autonomous community) Olympic rugby sevens players for Spain Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics People from Ordizia Sportspeople from Gipuzkoa Spain international women's rugby union players European Games competitors for Spain Rugby sevens players at the 2023 European Games Spanish female rugby union players Spanish rugby sevens players 21st-century Spanish sportswomen