Risi Pouri-Lane

EVENT: Rugby Sevens – Women

Risi Pouri-Lane is an Olympic gold medallist, having won the Tokyo 2020 sevens tournament with the New Zealand women's sevens team. 

Pouri-Lane graduated from the New Zealand Women's Development team into the New Zealand women's sevens in 2018.

The former touch and judo representative hails from Motueka where she started playing rugby as a 10-year-old. From Motueka High School, Pouri-Lane was an instrumental member of the schools' sevens team that won the Under 18 Trans-Tasman Sevens in 2017.

In 2018 Pouri-Lane was called into the New Zealand women's sevens squad for the Commonwealth Games and sat on the bench during the dramatic gold medal match. Months later she captained the New Zealand Youth Olympic team to a gold medal in Buenos Aires.