Tyla Nathan-Wong (born 1 July 1994) is a New Zealand professional rugby sevens representative and two-time Olympic medalist. She became a silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Biography

In 2015 and 2019, Nathan-Wong was named New Zealand Sevens Player of the Year. She began playing rugby when she attended

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. She is of the

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tribe, and is also of Chinese and European descent. In 2012 and 2013, she won the Junior Māori Sportswoman of the Year award and was a finalist for the same award in 2014. Nathan-Wong was selected for the women's sevens team to the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2018, Nathan-Wong and her team won both the

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held on the Gold Coast in Australia, as well as the

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in San Francisco, United States. In 2019, Nathan-Wong was nominated as a World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year having completed the season as the top goal kicker in the tournament. She joined the Blues for the inaugural

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competition. Nathan-Wong was named in the Black Ferns Sevens squad for the

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. She won a bronze medal at the event. Nathan-Wong got her first Black Ferns XV's call up after she was selected for the Laurie O’Reilly Cup Test series against Australia. She debuted for

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on 20 August 2022 against Australia at the Orangetheory Stadium in

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References

External links

Black Ferns Profile

Black Ferns Sevens Profile
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