Celia Quansah
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| Full name | Celia Quansah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 26 October 1995[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Twickenham, England[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Celia Quansah (born 25 October 1996) is an English rugby sevens player who plays for Leicester Tigers Women. She was selected as a member of the Great Britain women's national rugby sevens team for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Born to a Ghanaian father and English mother, Quansah grew up in Twickenham. She participated in athletics, winning the long jump event at the 2011 School Games, and represented England internationally in heptathlon, competing at the British Championships against Jessica Ennis-Hill. Whilst at university, she took up rugby. After playing for six months, she was invited to join the England Sevens programme for 2018/19, and played for the winning Great Britain team at the 2019 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament.[3][2]
She was selected as a member of the Great Britain women's national rugby sevens team for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4] She was named in the England squad for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Quansah is openly lesbian, and is in a same-sex relationship with her England 7s teammate Megan Jones.[6][7] The couple represented Great Britain together at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Celia Quansah". world.rugby. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Celia Quansah". englandrugby.com. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ Rowan, Kate (31 January 2021). "Exclusive interview: Meet Meg Jones and Celia Quansah - 'It's easier to be gay in rugby than other sports'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ "Rugby sevens squads confirmed for Tokyo". Team GB. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ "ENGLAND SQUADS FOR RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS NAMED". Englandrugby.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ Rowan, Kate (31 January 2021). "Exclusive interview: Meet Meg Jones and Celia Quansah - 'It's easier to be gay in rugby than other sports'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Tokyo 2020: Megan Jones and Celia Quansah on rugby, their relationship and Olympic selection". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- Celia Quansah at World Athletics
- Celia Quansah at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
- Celia Quansah at Olympedia (archive)
- Celia Quansah at Olympics.com
- Celia Quansah at Team GB
- Celia Quansah at Team England
- Celia Quansah at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Living people
- 1995 births
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- Black British LGBTQ people
- Black British sportswomen
- British LGBTQ rugby union players
- Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for England
- English lesbian sportswomen
- England international women's rugby sevens players
- English people of Ghanaian descent
- English rugby sevens players
- Great Britain women's international rugby sevens players
- Leicester Tigers Women players
- LGBTQ people from London
- Olympic rugby sevens players for Great Britain
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Rugby union players from the London Borough of Hounslow
- Rugby union wings
- People from Twickenham
- Rugby union players from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- Sportspeople of Ghanaian descent
- Wasps Women rugby players
- 21st-century English sportswomen