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Kenyan rugby sevens player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grace Adhiambo Okulu (born 16 March 1998) is a Kenyan rugby union and sevens player. She competed for Kenya in the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]
Okulu discovered rugby while playing football in primary school.[2] In 2016, she made her debut for Kenya's sevens team at 17, just as the Kenya Sevens team made their debut at the Women's Sevens Series in France.[2]
Okulu was the only scorer against Fiji in their placing match at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.[2] She also played a crucial role in her team's qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as she was a dependable try-scorer during their qualifiers in Tunisia.[2]
In 2021, Okulu made her fifteens debut in the Lionesses 2021 Rugby World Cup qualifying match against Colombia in Nairobi.[3][4] She scored five points from a conversion, and a penalty in her side's loss.[5]
Okulu signed with the Japanese, Kitakyushu-based, club Nagato Blue Angels on a six-month contract in the beginning of 2023.[6][7] She was named in Kenya's fifteens squad on 3 October 2023 for the inaugural WXV 3 tournament that will be held in Dubai.[8][9]
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