
HAVE A GO AT OLYMPIC SPORTS
HAVE A GO AT OLYMPIC SPORTS
Age
25
Place of Birth
FORBES, NSW
Hometown
Wagga Wagga, NSW
Junior Club
Gungahlin Eagles
Senior Club
ACT Brumbies
Coach
John Manenti
Olympic History
Paris 2024
High School
Mater Dei College, Wagga Wagga
Career Events
Rugby Sevens Men's 12-team Tournament
Flying winger Corey Toole had a meteoric rise to the Australian rugby sevens team when he made his debut in the 2021-22 season – just a few months before he was playing with the Gungahlin Eagles in the ACT competition.
Corey played his junior rugby growing up in the southern NSW town of Wagga Wagga, where he attended Mater Dei College before joining the ACT Brumbies’ Junior Academy in Canberra when he was 18.
He was called into the Australian training squad in November 2021, quickly offered a contract, and made his sevens debut in the opening tournament of the 2021-22 World Rugby Sevens Series in Dubai.
The speedster quickly made his mark: he finished the series as Australia’s leading try-scorer (43 tries) and second-highest points-scorer (215 points), helping Australia to victory for the first time.
In August 2022, Corey helped Australia to a fourth-place finish at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, scoring two tries.
In 2023, he signed with the ACT Brumbies, where he lit up the Super Rugby Pacific competition with nine tries in his first full season in the 15-player code, earning Australia A selection.
Corey was often described as the fastest man in Super Rugby and played a key role with the Brumbies as they reached the semi-finals in 2024. He was linked to a call-up for the Wallabies, but instead it was announced he would return to the sevens squad for the Paris Olympics.
At Paris 2024 Corey played a part in the men's rugby sevens team's best-ever finish at an Olympic Games.
After going undefeated against Samoa (21-14), Kenya (21-7) and Argentina (22-14) in the pool stage they booked a spot in the semi-finals with an 18-0 shutout of the USA. The Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Fiji side awaited in the quarter-finals, where the Aussie's run was halted with a 7-31 loss.
There was another chance at a medal in the battle for bronze against South Africa hours later, with South Africa winning 26-19 to put Australia in fourth place.
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