Tenika Willison (born 7 December 1997) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She plays for Chiefs Manawa in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition. She also plays for the Black Ferns sevens internationally and won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Rugby career

Rugby sevens

Willison debuted for the Black Ferns Sevens side in 2016. She competed for New Zealand in the women's sevens tournament at the

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where she won a gold medal. Willison was named in the Black Ferns Sevens squad for the

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. She won a bronze medal at the event. She later competed in her second Rugby World Cup Sevens in

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and won a silver medal.

Fifteens

Willison was signed by Chiefs Manawa for the

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. She was selected in the Black Ferns fifteens 30-player squad to compete in the Pacific Four Series and O’Reilly Cup.

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* 1997 births Living people New Zealand female rugby sevens players New Zealand women's international rugby sevens players Female rugby sevens players Olympic rugby sevens players for New Zealand Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) People educated at Hamilton Girls' High School Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rugby sevens Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games 20th-century New Zealand women 21st-century New Zealand women Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-stub