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Mahina Paul
Mahina Paul (born 19 April 2001) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Rugby careerPaul has represented New Zealand in touch rugby and at the Youth Olympic Games for rugby sevens in 2018.[2] Paul made her Black Ferns Sevens international debut at the South Africa Sevens in Cape Town in 2019.[3] She was one of three players who were handed professional contracts earlier that year.[2] She later featured at the 2020 New Zealand Sevens in Hamilton.[3][4] Paul was named as a travelling reserve for the Black Ferns Sevens squad to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[5][6] On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been selected as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Rugby Sevens team for the Olympic sevens competition| Paris Olympics.[7] The team won the gold medal, defeating Canada 19–12 in the final.[8] See alsoReferences
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