| Date of birth | 4 August 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rusila Nagasau (born 4 August 1987) is a Fijian rugby union player. She plays rugby sevens for Fiji and was also a representative soccer player.[1] She was included in the squad for the 2016 France Women's Sevens.[2]
Nagasau was instrumental in Fiji qualifying for the 2016 Olympics when she scored four tries in the 2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship final against Samoa.[3] She was named in the sevens squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics alongside cousin and captain Ana Maria Roqica.[4][5][6]
Nagasau represented Fiji at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[7][8] She won a bronze medal at the event.[9][10][11]
Nagasau was a batonbearer for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay when the baton came to her island in February 2022.[12] She was later a part of the Fijiana sevens team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[13][14][15][16] In September she captained the team at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.[17]
Nagasau was named on the bench in the warm up match against Canada ahead of the World Cup.[18][19] She was selected for the Fijiana squad to the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.[20][21]
