Vicky Elmes Kinlan
| File:Vicki Elmes Kinlan 2024.jpg Elmes Kinlan with Ireland at the 2024 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 February 2003[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vicky Elmes Kinlan (born 21 February 2003) is an Irish rugby union player. She was selected as part of the Ireland national rugby sevens team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Career
[edit | edit source]She is from Rathnew and plays domestically for Wicklow RFC.[3] She played for Ireland at underage level in Sevens and XVs and was called up to train with the senior Irish Sevens team for the first time in August 2021. She made her World Sevens debut in Canada in April 2022.[4][5][6]
She played in the Irish sevens team that won their first ever World Series in Perth, Australia when they beat hosts Australia in January 2024.[7] She was subsequently named in the Irish sevens team to play at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[8]
Elmes Kinlan made her international fifteens debut for Ireland against Australia on 14 September 2024 at Kingspan Stadium in Belfast.[9][10] She was also selected in the side to compete at the WXV1 tournament in Canada a few weeks later.[11]
She was named in Ireland's squad for the 2025 Six Nations Championship in March.[12][13]
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- 2003 births
- Living people
- Ireland international women's rugby sevens players
- Ireland women's international rugby union players
- Irish rugby sevens players
- Rugby union players from County Wicklow
- Rugby sevens players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players for Ireland
- 21st-century Irish sportswomen