Portia Woodman-Wickliffe

New Zealand Olympian: 1369

olympic games

Medals

2
1
commonwealth games

Medals

1
1

Biography

EVENT: Rugby Sevens - Women

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe is one of the most recognisable players in rugby, as the leading try scorer on World Series.

Woodman-Wickliffe has been recognised on the global stage with the 2015 World Rugby Women’s Sevens Player of the Year Award and in 2017 was named World Rugby Women's Player of the Year. In 2020 she was named as the top women’s sevens player of the decade.

In XVs, Woodman-Wickliffe was part of the World Cup winning Black Ferns in 2017 and 2022 and holds the record for most tries in a Farah Palmer Cup match, crossing for six tries against Taranaki for Northland in 2020. She was part of the team that won Gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Her father, Kawhena, and uncle, Fred, both played for the All Blacks in the 1980s.

In 2022, she scored her 200th try on the World Sevens Series, a history-making feat.

Woodman-Wickliffe retired from international sevens following the Paris 2024 Olympics.

athlete

Fast facts

Sport
Rugby - Sevens
Birth place
Kawakawa
Born
1991
Height
169cm

Olympic Summer GamesParis 2024

Rugby - Sevens(Rugby Sevens - Women)

  • Performance: 19-12
  • Result: Win
  • Placed: 1 of 12
  • R.Pouri-Lane (7) 1:58, 1:35
  • M.Blyde (5) 0:31
  • T.King (2) 0:51
  • S.Waaka (5) 5:01

Olympic Summer GamesTokyo 2020

Rugby - Sevens(Rugby Sevens - Women)

  • Performance: 26-12
  • Result: Win
  • Placed: 1 of 12
  • TRIES/CONVERSIONS
  • Michaela Blyde (T) 1:00
  • Tyla Nathan-Wong (C) 1:18, (C) 7:11, (T) 11:07,
  • (C) 11:27
  • Gayle Broughton (T) 5:30
  • Stacey Fluhler (T) 6:57

Olympic Summer GamesRio 2016

Rugby - Sevens(Rugby Sevens - Women)

  • Performance: 17-24
  • Result: Loss
  • Placed: 2 of 12