Huriana Manuel
.jpg) Manuel in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Huriana Manuel-Carpenter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 August 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Liza Mihinui (mother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Huriana Manuel-Carpenter (born 8 August 1986) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays for the Black Ferns, the New Zealand women's sevens team and Auckland.
Rugby career
[edit]Manuel was part of the Black Ferns squad that won the 2006[1][2] and 2010 Rugby World Cup's. In 2009, she was part of the Black Ferns sevens team that were runners-up at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.
Honours
[edit]In 2021, World Rugby inducted Manuel into its World Rugby Hall of Fame, alongside Osea Kolinisau, Humphrey Kayange, Cheryl McAfee, Will Carling and Jim Telfer.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Of Māori descent, Manuel affiliates to the Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāpuhi iwi.[4] Manuel's mother, Liza Mihinui, is a former Black Fern. They are the first mother and daughter to play for the Black Ferns.[5][6][7]
In August 2021, it was announced that she would feature in the 2021 season of Celebrity Treasure Island.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "World Cup Windback: 2006 Black Ferns". allblacks.com. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
Huriana Manuel-Carpenter
- ^ "Black Ferns World Cup squad named". NZ Herald. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
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- ^ "Six legends to be inducted into World Rugby Hall of Fame". World Rugby. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
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- ^ "43 Māori athletes to head to Rio Olympics". Te Karere. 5 August 2016. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ Paul Lewis (30 July 2006). "Ferns a family affair". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Alan Apted (4 March 2009). "Suasua set for record". Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Anna Kessel (20 August 2010). "Fierce Ferns pull in crowds as women's World Cup begins". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- ^ "Meet the contestants of Celebrity Treasure Island 2021". TheSpinoff. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Huriana Manuel-Carpenter at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
- Huriana Manuel-Carpenter at the World Rugby Hall of Fame
- Huriana Manuel at the Black Ferns (archive)
- Huriana Manuel at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Huriana Manuel at Olympics.com
- Huriana Manuel at Olympedia
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female rugby union players
- New Zealand women's international rugby union players
- New Zealand female rugby sevens players
- New Zealand women's international rugby sevens players
- New Zealand Māori rugby union players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players for New Zealand
- Ngāti Tūwharetoa people
- Ngāpuhi people
- Rugby union centres
- Auckland rugby union players
- Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand
- Olympic medalists in rugby sevens
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1980s birth stubs