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| Born | Emma Kate TonegatoOAM (1995-03-20)20 March 1995 (age 30) Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (10 st 10 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Five-eighth, Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emma Kate Verran (Nee Tonegato)OAM (born 20 March 1995) is a professional Australianrugby league player. She has represented Australia inrugby sevens andrugby league. Born inWollongong, New South Wales and playing for The Tribe atrugby union club level, she debuted for Australia in November 2013. As of December 2015, she had 12 caps. She won a gold medal at the2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
Emma's father is Italian Stefano Tonegato who emigrated to Australia fromValdagno, specifically from afrazione named "San Quirico Valdagno". Emma started to play rugby when she was ten years old in a female junior team.[2]
Tonegato made her debut for the Australian Women's side in the opening leg of the2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series inDubai in November 2013. She has been a regular on the team since. She switched to rugby league and competed at the2013 Women's Rugby League World Cup. She has the ability to play on the wing or in the centres.
Tonegato was named in the tournament Dream Team for the Amsterdam leg of the Rugby Sevens World Series in May 2015. Representative Honours include New South Wales, NSW Schoolgirls (2013) and the Youth Olympic Festival (2013).[3]
Tonegato was a member ofAustralia's team at the2016 Summer Olympics, defeating New Zealand in the final to win the inaugural sport Olympic gold medal.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
At the2017 Australia Day Honours she received theMedal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medalist at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.[11]
Tonegato was named in theAustralia squad for theRugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[12] The team came second in the pool round but then lost to Fiji 14-12 in the quarterfinals.[13]Full details.
In 2021, Tonegato signed with theSt George Illawarra Dragons and played 7 games including thegrand final where they lost 16-4. She also won theDally M Medal for best and fairest. She resigned with the Dragons in 2022 where she played 6 games and in the Semi Final against theKnights.
In 2023 She played her debut season at theCronulla Sharks in their inaugural season, playing 9 games, and scoring 3 tries. Later that year she played in the first Womens State of Origin 2 game series, playing both games, and scoring 1 try.
In 2024 Emma played in game 1 of the first 3 game Womens State of Origin series, scoring a try.
