Celia Quansah (born 25 October 1996) is an English rugby sevens player who plays for

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. She was selected as a member of the

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for the

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Biography

Born to a

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ian father and English mother, Quansah grew up in

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. She participated in athletics, winning the long jump event at the 2011 School Games, and represented England internationally in

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

, competing at the British Championships against

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. Whilst at university, she took up rugby. After playing for six months, she was invited to join the England Sevens programme for 2018/19, and played for the winning Great Britain team at the

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. She was selected as a member of the

for the

. She was named in the England squad for the

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held in

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in September 2022.

Personal life

Quansah is openly

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, and is in a

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with her England 7s teammate Megan Jones. The couple represented

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together at the

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