Tyla King

Tyla King, born Tyla Nathan-Wong on 1 July 1994 in Auckland, is a New Zealand international rugby union player, professional rugby league player and Olympian. She debuted for the New Zealand sevens team in 2012 at eighteen and won silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics and back-to-back gold at the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics, with the team taking the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series seven times. In 2023 she was released to play rugby league for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership and was picked for the New Zealand women's rugby league team. She returned to sevens in early 2024, retired from international sevens after Paris, and is the highest women's points scorer in the sevens series.