Rusila Nagasau (born 4 August 1987) is a Fijian

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 m ...

player. She plays rugby sevens for Fiji and was also a representative

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player. She was included in the squad for the 2016 France Women's Sevens.

Biography

Nagasau was instrumental in

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

qualifying for the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

when she scored four tries in the

2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship The 2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship was the fifth Oceania Women's Sevens tournament. It was held in Auckland, New Zealand on 14–15 November 2015. As well as determining the regional championship, the tournament was also a qualifying even ...

final against

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. She was named in the sevens squad for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

alongside cousin and captain

Ana Maria Roqica Ana Maria Roqica (born February 2, 1988) is a Fijian rugby sevens player. She is a member of the Fiji women's national rugby sevens team to the 2016 Summer Olympics. Roqica was named in the Fijiana team to the 2020 Summer Olympics when she was s ...

. Nagasau represented Fiji at the

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. She won a bronze medal at the event. Nagasau was a batonbearer for the

2022 Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay The Queen's Baton Relay for the 2022 Commonwealth Games covered 90,000 miles and visited 72 Commonwealth nations and territories from Birmingham Airport. The journey began at Buckingham Palace on 7 October 2021 and ended in Birmingham during th ...

when the baton came to her island in February 2022. She was later a part of the Fijiana sevens team that won the silver medal 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 ...

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. In September she captained the team at the

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. Nagasau was named on the bench in the warm up match against

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ahead of the World Cup. She was selected for the

Fijiana The Fiji women's national rugby sevens team represents Fiji at regional and international sevens tournaments. They have won three Pacific Games gold medals, two Oceania Championships, a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal a ...

squad to the

2021 Rugby World Cup The 2021 Rugby World Cup was the ninth staging of the women's Rugby World Cup, as organised by World Rugby. It was held from 8 October to 12 November 2022 in Auckland and Whangārei, New Zealand. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2021, ...

in New Zealand.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagasau, Rusila 1987 births Living people Fijian female rugby union players Olympic rugby sevens players for Fiji Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Fiji Olympic medalists in rugby sevens Fiji international women's rugby sevens players Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Fiji Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games