New Zealand won the Marriott Sevens 2014 Photo: Martin Seras Lima
New Zealand won the London Sevens, beating Australia 52-33 in the final at Twickenham. The win on English soil also marked the 12th Series title for the Kiwis.
Their closest rival in the series, South Africa won the plate after beating Kenya 38-7 in the final.
21 points by Canadian captain Phil Mack helped his country to win the Bowl by beating Argentina 24-14 in the final.
Finally the Shield trophy went to the USA. They beat Japan 36-12 in their respective final.
New Zealand once again finish a tournament on top. The Kiwis claim their 4th Cup title this season at the Emirates Glasgow Sevens by beating Canada 54-7 in the final.
Once again New Zealand finish at the top. Photo Martin Seras Lima
England beat Kenya 26-5 in the Plate final with James Rodwell and Marcus Watson crossing the whitewash. Earlier tries from Alex Gray, Norton and captain Tom Mitchell gifted Simon Amor’s side a 21-7 win over Australia while Humphrey Kayange scored two tries for Paul Treu’s side against South Africa in the semi finals.
France beat Argentina 20-14 in the in the Bowl final to claim eight Series points and end day two unbeaten. Argentina defeated Samoa 29-12 in the semi finals while France proved too strong for Spain winning 24-0.
Sam Cross and Luke Morgan scored two tries each to give Wales a 29-7 win over Japan to claim the Shield.
The HSBC Sevens World Series returned to today with the second last stage being held in Scotland. The hosts booked a Cup quarter final spot by topping their pool. Canada also managed to became top of the table in their respective group. Finally series leader New Zealand and Ben Ryan’s Fiji both topped their pools.
A young fan Scotland fan supports his team. Photo: IRB/Martin Seras Lima
Here are all results from day 1:
Scotland 33 – 12 Spain Pool D
Australia 34 – 14 United States Pool D
New Zealand 19 – 5 South Africa Pool A
Samoa 28 – 5 Portugal Pool A
France 31 – 5 Japan Pool B
England 7 – 7 Canada Pool B
Argentina 19 – 33 Kenya Pool C
Fiji 45 – 0 Wales Pool C
United States 0 – 26 Scotland Pool D
Australia 36 – 7 Spain Pool D
South Africa 40 – 0 Samoa Pool A
New Zealand 38 – 0 Portugal Pool A
Canada 28 – 12 France Pool B
England 33 – 24 Japan Pool B
Wales 17 – 28 Argentina Pool C
Fiji 24 – 17 Kenya Pool C
United States 7 – 17 Spain Pool D
Australia 7 – 19 Scotland Pool D
South Africa 38 – 0 Portugal Pool A
New Zealand 26 – 7 Samoa Pool A
Canada 52 – 0 Japan Pool B
England 21 – 5 France Pool B
Wales 24 – 19 Kenya Pool C
Fiji 26 – 7 Argentina Pool C
New Zealand won the Hong Kong Sevens and reclaim the lead in the series table on Day 3. Photo Martin Seras Lima
Once again New Zealand set the standard in this years HSBC Sevens Series by winning the Hong Kong Sevens. The Kiwis, lead by captain DJ Forbes, beat England in the final 26-7 and retain the lead in the series. New Zealand’s biggest rivals this season, South Africa won the Plate agains Wales, which gives New Zealand a seven point lead in the table.
In the other finals, Scotland beat France 31-5 to claim the Bowl and Kenya secured the Shield by beating Portugal 17-10.
Fiji qualified for the Cup quarter final, where they will face USA tomorrow. Photo Martin Seras Lima
16 matches were played today at the Hong-Kong Sevens. As so often, the stadium was packed and the atmosphere ecstatic. Here are all of today’s results and highlights.
Fiji 43 – 5 Kenya
South Africa 7 – 10 Australia
England 14 – 12 Canada
New Zealand 17 – 7 United States
Wales 47 – 12 Sri Lanka
France 14 – 10 Spain
Argentina 19 – 7 Portugal
Scotland 14 – 19 Samoa
Kenya 7 – 10 Wales
Fiji 56 – 0 Sri Lanka
Australia 26 – 0 France
South Africa 22 – 14 Spain
Canada 14 – 7 Argentina
England 21 – 7 Portugal
United States 10 – 15 Scotland
New Zealand 26 – 7 Samoa
England’s James Rodwell played his 50th match on the series today at the Hong Kong Sevens 2014. Photo Martin Seras Lima
Just five days after the Tokyo Sevens, 16 teams compete at the IRB Sevens World Series in Hong-Kong. Today the first eight matches were played. Here are today’s results:
Fiji 42 – 7 Wales Pool A
South Africa 31 – 7 France Pool B
England 19 – 12 Argentina Pool C
New Zealand 33 – 0 Scotland Pool D
Kenya 41 – 0 Sri Lanka Pool A
Australia 28 – 14 Spain Pool B
Canada 35 – 7 Portugal Pool C
United States 26 – 12 Samoa Pool D
An impressive Fiji side managed to beat Tokyo Sevens title defender South Africa 33-26 in the final. The success in Japan was the second Cup final of the season for Ben Ryan’s side.
Ben Ryan’s Fiji side secured their second cup title this season in Tokyo. Photo Martin Seras Lima
Despite the defeat in the final, South Africa returned to the top of the series table ahead of New Zealand who lost to England in the third place play-off. Fiji claimed the third place with England now on fourth position.
In the other finals Australia beat USA 17-12 to win a second successive Plate on the series, Wales overcame Scotland in a home-nations final to win the Bowl.
Finally, Argentina beat Samoa 26-0 in the Shield final.
The USA reached their first Cup quarter final of the 2013/14 HSBC Sevens World Series at the end of an enthralling day of action at the 2014 Tokyo Sevens. Despite a defeat against France in their final pool match, a win over Samoa and a draw against Fiji was enough to progress to the Cup quarter’s. The US-boys face South Africa on day two.
Hosts Japan managed to drew in their match against Argentina at the Tokyo Sevens. HSBC Sevens World Series 2014 – Photo Martin Seras Lima
Ben Ryan’s team Fiji showed strong performances against Samoa and France and secured yet another Cup quarter final. Fiji will play against Kenya tomorrow.
Defending champions South Africa maintained a 100% record on day one, defeating Japan, Kenya and Argentina.
England also secured as the only European team a Cup quarter-final spot, by beating Australia, Spain and Scotland on day one. They’ll face Canada on day two.
It has been a while since the last stop of the HSBC Sevens Series, but this weekend the 16 teams travel Far East to compete yet again in Japan.
New Zealand captain DJ Forbes and Kyle Brown of South Africa seem to enjoy the pre-tournament press conference in Tokyo. Photo: Kaori Matsumoto
The tournament will be a great opportunity for the hosts to prove recent progress of the ambitious Japanese rugby development. They will face South Africa, Argentina and Kenya in a tough Pool B. The favourites of this pool, South Africa, are just two points behind series leaders New Zealand. The BlitzBokke are defending the title in Tokyo this weekend and a successful trophy re-claim would guarantee the lead in the series over rivals New Zealand.
Pool A: New Zealand, Canada, Wales, Portugal
Pool B: South Africa, Argentina, Kenya, Japan
Pool C: Fiji, Samoa, France, USA
Pool D: England, Australia, Scotland, Spain
Even though it looks at the moment like a two team title competition between New Zealand and South Africa, Boks coach Neil Powell admits Fiji and England could still cause some upset with big performances in the last four rounds.
The All Blacks Sevens team arrive as the current in-form team, having conceded no points in their last five matches in Wellington. It will certainly be another exciting weekend full of 7s action.
7 Bamboos Rugby will keep you updated with all the latest results and videos throughout the weekend.
Here are the best tries from last years Tokyo Sevens
The IRB has announced a number of 25 nations which applied to host one of the IRB Sevens World Series tournaments in 2014/2015 as well as a further 14 countries that are competing to become the host of the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2018. This vast interest just underlined the enormous global appeal since the sport has become Olympic.
The vast growth of the game has been underlined once more. Photo: Martin Seras Lima
IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset was very pleased with this announcement and stated that “…this unprecedented response truly reflects the enormous prestige and appeal of Rugby Sevens in the global sporting market place ahead of our Rio 2016 Olympic Games debut…we look forward to collaborating with each interested party as we look ahead to the next phase of the process.”
The full list of Unions that have expressed an interest to tender for IRB Sevens World Series 2015/16 is: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, USA, Wales.
The list of Unions that have expressed an interest to tender for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 is: England, Fiji, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, USA, Wales.
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