Full name | Andrew Noel Omondi Amonde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 25 December 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Nyeri, Kenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 106 kg (234 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrew Noel Omondi Amonde[1] (born 25 December 1983) is a Kenyan rugby union player and television producer.[2] He plays for Kenya's national sevens team and has been its captain since 2012.[3][4] Amonde captained Kenya's Olympic sevens team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[5]
Volleyballer Mercy Moim and Amonde were chosen to be Kenya's flagbearers at the Olympics opening ceremony in Tokyo (Moim was the second woman to be given this honour following archer Shehzana Anwar in 2016).[6]