Huriana Manuel
Full name | Huriana Manuel-Carpenter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 8 August 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Liza Mihinui (mother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Huriana Manuel-Carpenter (born 8 August 1986) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays for the Black Ferns, the New Zealand women's sevens team and Auckland.
Rugby career
Manuel was part of the Black Ferns squad that won the 2006 and 2010 Rugby World Cup's. In 2009, she was part of the Black Ferns sevens team that were runners-up at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.
Honours
In 2021, World Rugby inducted Manuel into its World Rugby Hall of Fame, alongside Osea Kolinisau, Humphrey Kayange, Cheryl McAfee, Will Carling and Jim Telfer.
Personal life
Of Māori descent, Manuel affiliates to the Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāpuhi iwi. Manuel's mother, Liza Mihinui, is a former Black Fern. They are the first mother and daughter to play for the Black Ferns.
In August 2021, it was announced that she would feature in the 2021 season of Celebrity Treasure Island.
- 1986 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female rugby union players
- New Zealand women's international rugby union players
- New Zealand female rugby sevens players
- New Zealand women's international rugby sevens players
- New Zealand Māori rugby union players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players for New Zealand
- Ngāti Tūwharetoa people
- Ngāpuhi people
- Rugby union centres
- Auckland rugby union players
- Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand
- Olympic medalists in rugby sevens
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1980s birth stubs