Date of birth | 23 March 1983 | |||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Port Hedland, Western Australia | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (11 st 5 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Tavo (born 23 March 1983) is a former Australian triple international. She has represented Australia in rugby league, rugby sevens and touch. She has captained the Australian women's sevens team.[1] She competed for Australia at the 2009 and 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[2] She also represented Fiji at the Rio Olympics.[3][4]
Tavo was part of the Champion Australian Women's Touch team at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Scotland.[5] In 2006, she became BHP Billiton's first female train driver.[6] She is also the first Rotuman female to play rugby internationally.[7]
In 2015, she changed allegiance and played for the Fijiana team in the Oceania 7's helping them to win the tournament as well as qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[8][3][4]