Joanne Watmore
| Date of birth | 25 September 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joanne Watmore (born 25 September 1986) is a British rugby union player. She plays for the England women's national rugby union team and for England women's national rugby sevens team. She was selected as a member of the Great Britain women's national rugby sevens team to the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1] Watmore is England Sevens Top Try Scorer.
She played at the 2008 Women's Rugby League World Cup and at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Watmore was picked for the final selection of Great Britain's national rugby sevens team competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Watmore was the first try scorer for Team GB in the 2016 Olympics. The team finished the tournament on 4th place losing against New Zealand in the semifinal and against Canada in the match for the bronze medals.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "WATMORE Joanne". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- ^ Triggs, David (2016-08-08). "Chester rugby ace Joanne Watmore eyeing Olympic medal in Rio". chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
External links
[edit]- 1986 births
- Living people
- Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- England international women's rugby sevens players
- Olympic rugby sevens players for Great Britain
- Great Britain women's international rugby sevens players
- Rugby union players from Chester
- Alumni of Leeds Beckett University
- Rugby union centres
- English female rugby union players
- 21st-century English sportswomen