Dominique du Toit (born 19 May 1997) is an Australian rugby union player.

Career

Du Toit was born in Maronderra, Zimbabwe. She has represented Australia at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

and the

Commonwealth Youth Games The Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) is an international multi-sport event organized by the Commonwealth Games Federation. The games were held in the years, mid-way between when the Commonwealth Games are held, until 2008. They continued to be held ...

. She also competed at the

2015 Pacific Games The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby. More tha ...

in Papua New Guinea. Du Toit made her debut for the Australian sevens team at the

2016 USA Women's Sevens The 2016 USA Sevens was the third tournament within the 2015–16 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was held over the weekend of 8–9 April 2016 at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw, Georgia. Australia won the tournam ...

in Atlanta. She was selected for the Australian squad for the 2016 Olympics as an injury reserve. Du Toit was named in the Australia squad for the

Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 26 July to 31 July 2021 at the Tokyo Stadium. 24 teams (12 each for men and women) competed in the tournament. The dates were modified due to the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 ga ...

. The team came second in the pool round but then lost to Fiji 14–12 in the quarterfinals. In 2022, Du Toit won a gold medal with the Australian sevens team at the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...

in Birmingham. She was a member of the Australian team that won the 2022 Sevens Rugby World Cup held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.

Personal life

In 2016 she made a guest appearance as herself on the Australian television show

Neighbours ''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons an ...

References

1997 births Living people Australian rugby union players Australian female rugby sevens players Olympic rugby sevens players for Australia Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Marondera Rugby sevens players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Australian women 21st-century Australian people Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Australian people of Zimbabwean descent Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub