Hugo Lennox (born 6 March 1999) is an Irish rugby union player who plays for the

Ireland national rugby sevens team The Ireland national rugby sevens team competed in several international rugby sevens competitions. The team was governed by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU). In May 2025 the IRFU dismantled the programme at the end of the 2024/25 season, i ...

Rugby career

Lennox debuted with the Ireland national sevens team in September 2018. He also represented Ireland at the

2019 London Sevens The 2019 London Sevens was the penultimate event of the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series and the nineteenth edition of the London Sevens. The tournament was held at Twickenham Stadium, London on 25–26 May 2019. Format Sixteen teams are draw ...

where he started four of the six matches, and the team finished sixth. Lennox also played at the

2019 Paris Sevens The 2019 Paris Sevens was the final event of the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series and the twelfth edition of the France Sevens. The tournament was held on 1–2 June 2019 at Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris. Format Sixteen teams are drawn into four p ...

. Lennox again was in the Ireland squad in June 2019 for a Europe regional qualifying tournament for the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

. Lennox also played for Ireland during the 2019-20 World Rugby Sevens Series. In 2022, He competed for

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at the

Rugby World Cup Sevens Rugby World Cup Sevens (RWCS) was the former quadrennial world championship of rugby sevens, a variant of rugby union. Organised by World Rugby, it consisted of men's and women's tournaments, and was the highest level of competition in the sport ...

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. In addition to rugby sevens, Lennox has also played rugby fifteens with Skerries and with Barnhall and Clontarf in the All-Ireland League."Hugo Lennox all set up for Ireland's Olympic qualification bid"
Independent, Paul Byrne, June 8, 2019. Lennox competed for

at the

2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

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Irish Rugby Football Union The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) () is the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland (both Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). The IRFU has its head office at 10/12 Lansdowne Road and home ground at Aviva Stadium, where a ...

* * * * 1999 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Irish rugby union players Irish rugby sevens players Olympic rugby sevens players for Ireland Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Rugby sevens players at the 2024 Summer Olympics {{Ireland-rugbyunion-bio-stub