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Iroha Nagata

Nagata in 2023, after Japan's test against Italy

Date of birth

21 December 1998 (age 25)

Height

167 cm (5 ft 6 in)

Weight

62 kg (137 lb; 9 st 11 lb)

Rugby union career

Senior career
Position(s)	Back row
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
	Arukas Queen Kumagaya		(0)
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2016–Present	Japan	34	(0)
National sevens team
Years	Team		Comps
	Japan		15

Medal record

Women's rugby sevens

Representing Japan
Asian Games
	2018 Jakarta	Team

Iroha Nagata (born 21 December 1998) is a Japanese rugby union and sevens player.

Early life

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Nagata was born in Kokurakita-ku, Fukuoka. She attended Moji Gakuen High School and graduated in 2017. She then entered Rissho University which she graduated from in 2021.

Rugby career

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In July 2017, she was selected for the Japan women's rugby team for the Rugby World Cup in Ireland.

In 2022, she competed for the Japan women's national team at the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

Nagata also participated in the two-test series against the United States in August 2024.^[1] She subsequently captained the Sakura fifteens at the 2024 WXV 2 tournament in South Africa.^[2]

References

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^ "Sakura Fifteen Take Two-Test Series Down to the Wire Against USA". Japan Rugby Football Union. 2024-08-21. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
^ Rotich, Judy (2024-10-10). "Japan Targets First WXV2 Rugby Win Against Wales". Rugby On SI. Retrieved 2024-10-11.

v t e Japan women's squad – 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup
Forwards	Makoto Ebuchi Mizuho Kataoka Seina Saito (c) Ayano Sakurai Yui Shiozaki Yuki Sue Ayaka Suzuki Sayaka Suzuki Misaki Suzuki Maki Takano Aya Nakajima Ai Hyugaji Maiko Fujimoto Mateitoga Bogidraumainadave Saki Minami Aoi Mimura Iroha Nagata
Backs	Keiko Kato Riho Kurogi Mayu Shimizu Ai Tasaka Moe Tsukui Honoka Tsutsumi Makiko Tomita Yumeno Noda Eriko Hirano Wasana Fukushima Minori Yamamoto
Coach	Goshi Arimizu

v t e Japan squad – 2021 Rugby World Cup
Forwards	Hosokawa Kato Kawamura Kitano Komaki Korai Lavemai Minami (c) Nagai I. Nagata N. Nagata Sadaka Saito Sato M. Suzuki Takano Tamai Taniguchi Yoshimura
Backs	Abe Anoku Furuta Hirayama Imakugi Ito Matsuda Nagura Nakayama Otsuka A. Suzuki Tsukui Yamamoto
Coach	McKenzie