Nice Britain have named England pair Ellie Kildunne and Megan Jones of their 12-strong girls’s sevens squad for this summer time’s Paris Olympic Video games.
Each backs performed an influential position because the Pink Roses gained a third consecutive Ladies’s Six Nations Grand Slam in April, earlier than becoming a member of the sevens squad to start Olympic preparation.
Kildunne, 24, was the highest try-scorer within the Six Nations and was beforehand concerned in a GB Sevens camp earlier than the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, however selected to withdraw to make herself eligible for knowledgeable XVs contract.
Wales winger Jasmine Joyce can also be included, to grow to be the primary British rugby participant to look at three Olympic Video games.
Joyce, 28, was one among Staff GB’s key gamers at Rio and Tokyo as they misplaced the bronze medal match on each events.
Common captain Abbie Brown was additionally attempting to achieve a 3rd Olympics however misses out due to damage.
Emma Uren and Jones will play at their second Olympics after being concerned in Tokyo.
The duo are joined by Amy Wilson Hardy, Ellie Boatman, Grace Crompton, Heather Cowell, Isla Norman-Bell, Jade Shekells, Lisa Thomson and Lauren Torley, who’ve all performed consultant rugby for England.
“It was extraordinarily tough to call 14 at this stage, as there are such a lot of wonderful gamers who’ve carried out on the World Rugby SVNS stage to safe qualification for these Olympic Video games,” GB head coach Ciaran Beattie stated.
“We need to be aggressive in Paris and strategy every match as one that may be gained, with the last word purpose of medalling, on the similar time being respectful of the massive high quality of different groups.”
Staff GB certified for Paris 2024 final June after profitable gold on the European Video games.
The ladies’s sevens occasion on the Olympics begins on 28 July, with the GB males’s group needing to win the Olympic repechage match in Monaco this weekend to qualify.
