Séraphine Okemba
French rugby union player
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Séraphine Okemba (born 3 December 1995) is a French rugby union and sevens player. She won a silver medal for France at the delayed 2020 Olympics and also competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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| Born | 3 December 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby career
Okemba played fifteens rugby for Stade Français in France.[2] She won a silver medal with France's sevens squad at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[3] She also won a bronze medal at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.[4][5][6]
She competed for France at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[7][8]
On 7 March 2025, she was called up into France's fifteens team for the Women's Six Nations Championship.[9] In August, she was selected in the French side to the Women's Rugby World Cup in England.[10][11]
