Birth Place: | Whakatāne, New Zealand |
Height: | 1.65 m |
Weight: | 74 kg |
Relatives: | Mererangi Paul (sister) |
Amatteam1: | Rangataua |
Amatpoints1: | 0 |
Ru Provinceyears1: | 2020 – present |
Ru Province1: | Bay of Plenty |
Ru Provinceapps1: | 10 |
Ru Provincepoints1: | 45 |
Ru Sevensnationalyears1: | 2019 – present |
Ru Sevensnationalcomp1: | 54 apps 23 tries 115 points[1] |
Mahina Paul (born 19 April 2001) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player. She was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team when they won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Paul has represented New Zealand in touch rugby and at the Youth Olympic Games for rugby sevens in 2018.
Paul made her Black Ferns Sevens international debut at the South Africa Sevens in Cape Town in 2019.[2] She was one of three players who were handed professional contracts earlier that year.[3] She later featured at the 2020 New Zealand Sevens in Hamilton.[4]
Paul was named as a travelling reserve for the Black Ferns Sevens squad to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[5] [6]
On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been selected as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Rugby Sevens team for the Olympic sevens competition| Paris Olympics.[7] The team won the gold medal, defeating Canada 19–12 in the final.[8]