Demi Hayes
| Born | May 25, 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Demi Hayes (born 25 May 1998) is an Australian rugby sevens player.
Career
[edit | edit source]Hayes also plays touch rugby. She competed at the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games and won gold.[1] She made her debut for Australia at the 2016 Canada Women's Sevens against Brazil.[2]
Hayes was named in the Australian squad for the Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3] The team came second in the pool round but then lost to Fiji 14-12 in the quarterfinals.[4]
Hayes won a gold medal with the Australian sevens team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[5][6][7] She was a member of the Australian team that won the 2022 Sevens Rugby World Cup held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.[8][9]
Following issues with injury, she returned to the Australian Sevens team for the 2024-25 SVNS series.[10]
In December 2024, she was one of a number of Australia Sevens players who committed their intentions to play Super Rugby Women's in 2025 with Hayes committing to the ACT Brumbies.[11]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Her partner Simon Kennewell has also played rugby sevens for Australia.[12]
The two married on October 4th 2025.
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- Australian rugby union players
- Australian female rugby sevens players
- Olympic rugby sevens players for Australia
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Mount Isa
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in rugby sevens
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Australian rugby union biography, 1990s birth stubs