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Full name | Viniana Naisaluwaki Riwai | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 6 June 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Rewa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rewa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2010– | Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Viniana Naisaluwaki Riwai (born 6 June 1991) is a Fijian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Rewa FC and the Fiji women's national team, and a rugby sevens player, who plays for the Fiji women's national team.
Riwai was educated at Labasa Sangam Primary School, Labasa Muslim College, and Suva Sangam College.[1] She later studied at the University of the South Pacific.[2]
Riwai took up soccer in high school and was selected for the Fiji women's football team for the 2011 Pacific Games.[2] She capped for Fiji at senior level during the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup.[1]
Riwai made her senior international debut for the Fiji women's national rugby sevens team at the 2013 China Women's Sevens.[3] She was named in the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens squad for Fiji.[4] She was a member of the Fijian team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[5][6]
Riwai competed for Fiji in rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics and she won a bronze medal at the event.[7][8][9][10][11]
Riwai was part of the Fijiana sevens team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[12][13][14][15] She also featured at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.[16]