Mahina Paul
NZ rugby sevens player
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Mahina Paul (born 19 April 2001) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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| Born | 19 April 2001 Whakatāne, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative | Mererangi Paul (sister) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Rugby career
Paul has represented New Zealand in touch rugby and at the Youth Olympic Games for rugby sevens in 2018.[1]
Paul made her Black Ferns Sevens international debut at the South Africa Sevens in Cape Town in 2019.[2] She was one of three players who were handed professional contracts earlier that year.[1] She later featured at the 2020 New Zealand Sevens in Hamilton.[2][3]
Paul was named as a travelling reserve for the Black Ferns Sevens squad to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[4][5]
On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been selected as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Rugby Sevens team for the Olympic sevens competition| Paris Olympics.[6] The team won the gold medal, defeating Canada 19–12 in the final.[7]