Maurice Longbottom

Fast Facts

Sport: Rugby Sevens
Event: Men's Rugby Sevens
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1995
State Born: NSW

About Maurice

They call Maurice Longbottom ‘The Magician’ after his Sevens debut in 2017 featured a long, swerving, evading run to the try line that became a social media sensation.

He is a former South Sydney Rabbitohs junior and although he was told he was 'too small' for the rigours of elite rugby league, he has consistently proven the doubters wrong.

In 2018, Maurice was a member of the Australian sevens squad that placed fifth at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and also played in the Rugby Sevens World Cup in San Fransisco that year. 

Maurice has racked up over 20 Sevens caps and is a strong force in the 15-a-side game playing with Randwick Rugby Club in Sydney’s 2020 Shute Shield competition.

At the end of the 2020 season, he re-signed with the Sevens program in anticipation of the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Longbottom made his Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 games, as part of the Australian Men's Rugby Sevens squad that traveled to Japan. He would show his class in the group stages of the tournament, scoring once and holding a 100% conversion success rate in Australia's 42-5 victory over South Korea, propelling the Aussies to the knockout stage of the tournament. 

Despite falling short in the quarter-finals, losing 19-0 to Fiji, Maurice amassed 28 points over the course of the competition. This was the most of any Australian player at the games and helped the squad to a 7th overall finish after victory over Canada 26-7.