Netherlands women's national rugby sevens team explained

Country:Netherlands
Union:Dutch Rugby Union
Captain:Anne Hielckert
Coach:Chris Lane
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Sevens:yes
World Cup Apps:2
Year:2009
Best:10th place, 2013

The Netherlands women's national rugby sevens team participated in the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup in Hong Kong losing to Spain in the Plate semi-finals, they finished 8th overall. In October 2012, the Netherlands was announced by the International Rugby Board as one of six "core teams" that will compete in all four rounds of the inaugural IRB Women's Sevens World Series in 2012–13.[1] The team finished seventh in the standings. It was later decided that the quarter-finalists at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens would make up the eight core teams for the next series later that year.

History

In the 2013–14 IRB Women's Sevens World Series they competed in only three tournaments, with a best results of 8th at São Paulo. The 2014–15 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series would double as an Olympics qualifier for Rio 2016. The Netherlands were not invited to any tournament, apart from the 2015 Netherlands Women's Sevens where they finished 11th. They missed their chances of any Olympic qualification after losing at the 2015 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens and the 2015 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Olympic Repechage Tournament.[2]

Netherlands won the 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Trophy and were promoted to the Grand Prix Series for 2019.[3]

Tournament History

Rugby World Cup Sevens

Rugby World Cup Sevens
YearRoundPosition
2009Bowl Quarterfinalists13th4130
2013Bowl Finalists10th6330
2018Did not qualify
Total0 Titles2/310460

2012 Hong Kong Sevens

Pool C

NationWonDrawnLostForAgainst
2008021
1014033
002571

Finals

Plate semi finals

7th/8th

Players

Previous squads

Award winners

The following Netherlands Sevens players have been recognised at the World Rugby Awards since 2013:[4]

World Rugby Women's 7s Player of the Year
width=40Yearwidth=170Nomineeswidth=170Winners
2013Kelly van Harskamp

References

  1. IRB announces Women's Sevens World Series . International Rugby Board . 4 October 2012 . 4 October 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141019122715/http://www.irb.com/newsmedia/mediazone/pressrelease/newsid=2063752.html#irb+announces+womens+sevens+world+series . 19 October 2014 .
  2. Web site: Birch. John. 2019-05-11. Netherlands: The end of a dream. 2021-10-26. Scrum Queens. en.
  3. Web site: 2018-07-08. Netherlands and Ukraine promoted to Grand Prix. 2021-10-26. Scrum Queens. en.
  4. News: Awards Roll of Honour - World Rugby . www.world.rugby . 16 March 2024 . en.