Abi Burton
Abi Burton (born 9 March 2000) is an English rugby union player.
| Date of birth | March 9, 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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From Castleford, and daughter of Halifax Panthers and Bradford Bulls player Danny Burton, and sister to Leeds Rhinos Academy's Joe and Oli Burton, she was a school friend of professional footballer Jamie Shackleton.[1] Burton herself studied at Hartpury College where she played in the Premier 15s for Gloucester-Hartpury Women. and had also captained the U18 Hartpury side that won the National Schools Sevens and came third in the 2017 Sanix World Rugby Youth Invitational Tournament in Japan. Burton captained the England women's national rugby sevens team in the Kharkiv 7s, part of the 2019 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix Series.
In September 2020, she joined Wasps Ladies.[2] In June 2021 she was confirmed in the Great Britain Rugby Sevens squad for the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.[3]
References
- "Abi Burton exclusive interview: 'I had muscles bigger than most boys at high school - and got picked on because of it'". Telegraph.co.uk.
- "Exclusive: England Sevens star Abi Burton on crowdfunding their Olympic dream and fighting for change". Talkingrugbyunion.co.uk.
- "RFU". Englandrugby.com. Retrieved 22 October 2021.