Michaela Brake, born Michaela Blyde on 29 December 1995 in New Plymouth, is a New Zealand professional rugby sevens player and double Olympic gold medalist. She was the first woman to win back-to-back World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year awards, in 2017 and 2018. She won gold at the 2018 Sevens World Cup, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics, and holds the New Zealand women's record of six tries in one sevens match, scored against Sri Lanka at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. In January 2025 she became the second woman to score 250 tries in the HSBC international sevens circuit. She grew up on a dairy farm at Lepperton and her mother played for the Black Ferns.
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