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Nadine Roos

South African rugby union and sevens player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nadine Roos
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Nadine Roos (born 9 May 1996) is a South African rugby union and sevens player.

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Background

Roos was abandoned by her mother at a pre-school crèche in South Africa, her grandmother traveled 160 miles in order to look after her.[2] She was a hurdler and earned herself a bursary at the University of Pretoria where she was introduced to rugby.[2]

Roos made the 2021 CrossFit Games.[3][4]

Rugby career

Roos made her international sevens debut in the Dubai tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.[2]

In 2018, Roos competed for South Africa in the Commonwealth Games.[5] She later featured in the Rugby World Cup Sevens where they finished 14th overall.[6][2]

Roos was selected for the South African women's sevens team again and played in the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[7][8][9] She was named in South Africa's women's fifteens team for the 2021 Rugby World Cup.[10]

In 2023, she was named in the Springbok women's sevens side for the Dubai Women's Sevens.[11] She was a member of the South African side that competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[12][13]

In September 2024, she was confirmed as part of South Africa's fifteens squad for the 2024 WXV 2 tournament.[14][15]

On 9 August 2025, she was named in the Springbok women's squad to the Rugby World Cup in England.[16][17]

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