Date of birth | February 7, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Toronto, Ontario | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | St. Francis Xavier University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sara Kaljuvee (born February 7, 1993) is a Canadian rugby sevens and fifteens player. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and competed for Canada at the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup.
In 2016, Kaljuvee was named to Canada's first ever women's rugby sevens Olympic Team. She is a two time gold medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru as a member of the Canada women's national rugby sevens team.[1]
Kaljuvee was a part of the first ever women's Commonwealth Games tournament in 2018.[2] She was also a member of the 2018 Sevens World Cup Team.[3]
In 2022, Kaljuvee was selected and competed as the starting center in Canada's fifteens squad for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.[4][5][6] She scored a try against Fiji in a warm-up match before the World Cup.[7]
Kaljuvee was named in Canada's traveling squad for the 2023 Pacific Four Series.[8][9] She started in her sides Pacific Four loss to the Black Ferns, they went down 21–52.[10][11]
In 2023, Kaljuvee featured in the Premier Rugby Sevens tournament for the Pittsburgh Steeltoes.[12]