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Veroeshka Grain
Veroeshka Grain (born 11 December 1990) is a South African rugby union and sevens player. She competed for South Africa at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Rugby career Grain competed at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2023 WXV, and 2023–24 SVNS. She is captain of the DHL Western Province Women. She was a member of the South African sevens side that competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Grain, Veroeshka Living people 1990 births South African female rugby union players South African rugby sevens players Rugby sevens players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic rugby sevens players for South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people of all genders, ages and sizes. In 2014, there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide, of whom 2.36 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate members. In 1845, the first laws were written by students attending Rugby School; other significant even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
