6 Meet rugby's game-changers

As the Women’s Rugby World Cup kicks off in New Zealand on 8 October, we meet Sarah Hirini, one of the stars hoping to inspire the next generation of girls

JANE MCFARLAND

WOMEN'S RUGBY IS one of the fastest growing team sports in the world - in total, more than 2.7 million women and girls play in professional leagues, at the Olympics and at universities. Gone are the discriminatory attitudes towards female rugby players - age-old accusations that they are less capable, less suited - with a new generation of girls considering that, perhaps, rugby could be for them. At this month’s Women’s Rugby World Cup hosted in New Zealand - a potential global game-changer for the sport - Sarah Hirini is on a mission to further subvert the stereotype. The captain of New Zealand’s national team, the Black Ferns Sevens, she has already led them to a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with hopes to defend their World Cup…

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