2019 USA Women's Sevens explained

Series:Women's Sevens Series VIII
Countries: United States
Date:5–6 October 2019
Trophy2:Challenge
Matches:32
Prevseason:2018

The 2019 USA Women's Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament that takes place at Infinity Park in Glendale, Colorado between the 5-6 October 2019. It was the seventh time that the USA Women's Sevens have been held as an World Series event and was the first tournament of the 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.

In the cup final, the United States won their first USA Women's Sevens since the tournament became a World Series event as they defeated Australia 26–7 in the final. New Zealand came home in third place after defeating France 31–14 while England won the Challenge Trophy over Japan.

Background

The 2019 USA Women's Sevens is the first round of eight tournaments for the 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the seventh since the tournament became a part of the World Series.[1] During the off-season, qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics continued in the continental with England qualifying through to the Olympic Games as Great Britain with a 19-0 victory over Russia. France joined Russia in qualifying for the repcharge event.[2]

Format

The twelve teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each with each team playing their other three opponents in their pool once. Points are awarded in each pool on the standard schedule for rugby sevens tournaments (though different from the standard in the 15-man game)—3 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top two third place teams also compete in the Cup. The remaining four teams will compete in the Challenge Trophy.

Teams

Twelve teams will compete in the tournament with eleven teams being core teams to the Sevens Series. The twelfth team, Japan was invited to the tournament.[3]

Pool stage

Pool A

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330011619+979
32017962+177
31024388−455
30032190−693

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Pool B

width=175 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Pts
33009026+649
32018631+557
31024290−485
30031293−813

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Pool C

width=175 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Pts
32109238+548
32107647+298
31024871−235
30033595−603

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Knockout stage

Cup

Tournament placings

PlaceTeamPoints
20
18
16
414
512
610
PlaceTeamPoints
78
86
94
103
112
121
Source: World Rugby

Players

Scoring leaders

+Tries scored
Rank Player Tries
1 9
2 7
3 6
6
6
6
Source: World Rugby
+Points scored
Rank Player Points
1 45
2 40
40
4 38
5 36

Source: World Rugby

Dream Team

The following seven players were selected for the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:[4]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Schedule announced for HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020. 8 August 2019. 10 September 2019. World Rugby.
  2. Web site: England secure Great Britain's place at Tokyo 2020. 15 July 2019. 10 September 2019. World Rugby.
  3. Web site: Pools and match schedule announced for HSBC USA Women's Sevens. 28 August 2019. 9 September 2019. World Rugby.
  4. Web site: HSBC Dream Team . twitter.com/WorldRugby7s . https://web.archive.org/web/20191007031228/https://twitter.com/WorldRugby7s/status/1180996072467910656 . 7 October 2019 . 7 October 2019 . 7 October 2019 . live .