Sarah Hirini

Sarah Hirini

MNZM

Hirini in 2019
Birth name	Sarah Goss
Date of birth	(1992-12-09) 9 December 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Feilding, New Zealand
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
School	Feilding High School
University	Massey University
Occupation(s)	Professional sportswoman
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 2011–2013 Manawatu 13 (23) Super Rugby Years Team Apps (Points) 2022 Hurricanes Poua (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2016– New Zealand 17[1] (20) National sevens team Years Team Comps 2012– New Zealand 255 apps 87 tries 435 points[2]
Medal record Representing  New Zealand Women's rugby union Women's Rugby World Cup 2017 Ireland Team competition 2021 New Zealand Team competition Women's rugby sevens Olympic Games 2024 Paris Team competition 2020 Tokyo Team competition 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team competition Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Team competition 2022 Birmingham Team competition Rugby World Cup Sevens 2013 Moscow Team competition 2018 San Francisco Team competition 2022 Cape Town Team competition

Sarah Hirini MNZM (née Goss; born 9 December 1992) is a New Zealand women's rugby union player. She has played fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, as a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team and New Zealand women's national rugby union team. Hirini was captain of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team that won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and back-to-back gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. During her time with the team they won the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20 and 2022–23 as well as the Sevens league title for the 2023-24 season. She was a member of the fifteen-a-side 2017 and 2021 Black Ferns Rugby World Cup winning squads.