Ellia Green

Ellia Green

Date of birth	20 February 1993
Place of birth	Suva, Fiji
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Back
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Warringah
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
2013–	Australia
Medal record Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team

Ellia Green (born 20 February 1993) is a semi-professional Australian Rugby Union player. She represents Australia in Sevens Rugby and won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Born in Suva, Fiji and playing for Warringah at a club level, Green debuted for Australia in February 2013. As of December 2015, she had 13 caps.

Green started Little Athletics at the age of six when she began sprinting. She spent 10 years in athletics, representing Australia in the 100m, 200m and long jump at the World Junior Championships, until her cousins convinced her to try a hand at rugby sevens.^[1]

Green scored an 80-metre try against Canada in the three-match exhibition series at the Gold Coast Sevens, a match broadcast live on Fox Sports. Within four hours, the try had been viewed over 200,000 times on the IRB Sevens World Series Facebook page. Green was recruited by the Australian Rugby Sevens program after attending a Pathway to Gold Talent ID camp in Melbourne in 2012. She is a sprinter, having previously represented Australia in athletics at the World School Games in Qatar in 2009 and scored the winning try after the siren against Canada at Twickenham in the Sevens World Series in May 2015. Representative Honours include Victoria.^[2][3] She was a member of Australia's team at the 2016 Olympics, defeating New Zealand in the final to win the inaugural Olympic gold medal in the sport.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

References

1. http://www.rupa.com.au/news/the-players/player-profile-ellia-green
2. "Ellia Green". rugby.com.au. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
3. Nicholson, Larissa (2015-11-28). "From sprinting to rugby for Melbourne athlete". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
4. "Australia wins gold in women's rugby sevens". Sky News. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
5. Newman, Beth (14 July 2016). "Rio Olympics: Australian Sevens teams announced". www.rugby.com.au. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
6. "Rio Olympics: Australia's men's and women's sevens squads unveiled". foxsports.com.au. 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
7. "Rio 2016: Olympic squads named by Australia for rugby sevens debut at Games". ABC.net.au. 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
8. "Australia's Olympic Sevens squads announced". Rugby News.net.au. 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
9. "Australia name a mix of veterans, young guns for men's, women's Olympic sevens squads". ESPN.com.au. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
10. "Key players return as Australia name Olympic sevens squads". worldrugby.org. 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-14.