Rimma Petlevannaya

Rimma Petlevannaya

Date of birth	(1970-09-30) 30 September 1970
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) Murrayfield Wanderers (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1991–? Soviet Union (0) 1996–2006 Scotland 78 (0)

Rimma Petlevannaya (born September 30, 1970) is a Russian and Scottish former rugby union player. She played Fly-half for the Soviet Union and then Scotland.

Career

Petlevannaya competed at the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup for the Soviet Union. She later moved to Scotland and became a Scottish international. She made her international debut for Scotland against the Netherlands in November 1996.

Petlevannaya competed at the 2001 FIRA Women's European Championship, with the champion side. She also competed at the 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup, for Scotland. She was part of the team that traveled to Edmonton in Canada to achieve the best possible result at the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Petlevannaya has 78 caps as of 15 August 2006. She played club rugby for Murrayfield Wanderers. She also had the honor of wearing the colors of the British and Irish Lionesses.

External links

• Rimma Petlevannaya Getty