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Tim Mikkelson (born 13 August 1986 in
Matamata Matamata () is a town in Waikato, New Zealand. It is located near the base of the Kaimai Ranges, and is a thriving farming area known for Thoroughbred horse breeding and training pursuits. It is part of the Matamata-Piako District, which takes ...
) is a
New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
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. Mikkelson plays for the
New Zealand national rugby sevens team The New Zealand national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. They have won a record twelve World Rugby Sevens Series titles. The team has been of ...
and is the most capped player in the team's history, surpassing former captain DJ Forbes record when he played his 90th tournament in Los Angeles in 2020. Mikkelson was then named player of the tournament for the 2013 Rugby Sevens World Cup and also received IRB Sevens Player of the Year for the 2012–13 season. Mikkelson has scored more than 200 career tries for New Zealand in the
World Rugby Sevens Series The World Rugby Men's Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World Sevens Series, the com ...
, putting him third on the all-time try scorers list in that competition.IRBSevens.com, All Time Player Tries, http://www.irbsevens.com/statistics/allinttriesdetails.html Mikkelson has also played rugby for the Chiefs and for Waikato.


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* * * * * * 1986 births Living people Chiefs (rugby union) players Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players of New Zealand Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics New Zealand international rugby sevens players New Zealand male rugby sevens players New Zealand rugby union players Olympic medalists in rugby sevens Olympic rugby sevens players of New Zealand Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand Rugby sevens players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Rugby sevens players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Rugby union players from Matamata Rugby union wings Waikato rugby union players Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1980s-stub