The squad includes match officials from 16 countries - including the first German referee to officiate at an Olympic Rugby Sevens event in Maria Latos - with all six of World Rugby's regional associations represented. The officials were selected following a comprehensive review of their performances throughout the HSBC SVNS 2024 Series. 

Five officials will be taking part in their second Olympic Games - Paulo Duarte (Portugal), Francisco González (Uruguay), Tyler Miller (Australia), Tevita Rokovereni (Fiji) and Jordan Way (Australia), while Jérémy Rozier (France, pictured with Ano Kuwai) was selected for Tokyo but withdrew a month before the tournament due to an ACL injury. Duarte officiated at both the men's and women's competitions in Tokyo, while Rokovereni officiated at the women's event, but both were selected for the men's tournament in Paris. 

While Rozier is the only French official selected to officiate at a home Olympics, Paris 2024 marks a return to France for Way, who was an assistant referee at the 2023 Men's Rugby World Cup, including for one match at the Stade de France. 

Ano Kuwai (Japan), meanwhile, will make history as the first person to both play and referee at the Games, having been part of the Sakura Sevens team at Rio 2016 when rugby sevens made its Olympic debut some 92 years after rugby (15s) was last on the programme. Kuwai scored Japan's first-ever Olympic try in their 26-10 pool defeat to hosts Brazil.

Kuwai is one of six women selected for the women's panel, all of whom have refereed at international level, including Maggie Cogger-Orr (New Zealand) and Kat Roche (USA), who officiated at this year's Women's Six Nations, and Miller, who made her Test debut at the World Rugby Pacific Four Series last month.

World Rugby High Performance Sevens Referee Manager Paddy O'Brien said, "I am thrilled to be leading a very experienced and talented group of match officials to Paris 2024. To have so many countries represented and to know that every region is involved gives our management team great satisfaction and is a testament to the pathways we have put in place over the last four years. All those selected have worked extremely hard to ensure that when we arrive in Paris, we will have officials who can referee and officiate at the level required for such a special event." 

Jérémy Rozier said, "It's very special for me to be involved in an Olympic Games, it's a dream for players and referees. I'm especially happy because I missed Tokyo with an ACL injury after being selected, so I had to come back from that disappointment, train hard to be fit and take this chance to be in Paris. It will be a great tournament for me at home in Paris, where I live, with all my family there. 

"I am delighted to have been selected as part of the 23-strong Olympic match officials squad. We come from every continent in the world and have been training for the last three years since Tokyo to be ready for the Olympics and to be as good as we can be on the field to allow the players to play the way they want to and to let the game flow." 

The men's competition will take place from 24-27 July, kicking off the Paris 2024 Olympic Games alongside football two days before the Opening Ceremony, with the women's competition following from 28-30 July. All the action will take place at the Stade de France, which hosted the 2023 Men's Rugby World Cup Final last October.

Full match official squad for Paris 2024.

Men's tournament: 

-Ben Breakspear (Wales, Great Britain).

-Paulo Duarte (Portugal).

-Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy).

-Francisco González (Uruguay).  

-Nick Hogan (New Zealand).

-AJ Jacobs (South Africa).

-Reuben Keane (Australia).

-Adam Leal (England, Great Britain).

-Tevita Rokovereni (Fiji).

-Jérémy Rozier (France).

-Morné Ferreira (South Africa).

-Jordan Way (Australia).

Women's tournament:

-Finlay Brown (Scotland, Great Britain).

-Craig Chan (Hong Kong China).

-Talal Chaudhry (Canada).

-Maggie Cogger-Orr (New Zealand).

-Ano Kuwai (Japan).

-Maria Latos (Germany).

-Cisco Lopez (United States).

-Tyler Miller (Australia).

-Lavenia Rawaca (Fiji).

-Kat Roche (United States).

-George Selwood (England, Great Britain).