IWI: Ngapuhi

MARAE:

BIRTHPLACE: Auckland 1 July 1994

Tyla King (nee Nathan-Wong)

RUGBY SEVENS

Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team competition
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham Team competition
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Gold medal – first place 2018 San Francisco Team competition
Gold medal – first place 2013 Moscow Team competition

In 2011 she received the Māori achievement in sport award and the Junior Sportswoman award at the Sport Waitakere Koru Awards. In 2012 and 2013, she won the Junior Māori Sportswoman of the Year award and was a finalist for the same award in 2014. For her performance during the 2022–23 Sevens series Nathan-Wong was named the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Player of the Year in October 2023.