Dubai 7s: Day 2

Fiji Sevens celebrate their first ever victory at the Dubai Sevens 2013. Photo courtesy of irbsevens.

The second and final day of the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens was once again packed with world class 7s Rugby, more surprises and a deserved winner.

Ben Ryan’s team Fiji proved today that they are among the worlds best teams. Especially the two last games by Fiji underlined their class. In the semi-finals they secured a historic victory against rivals New Zealand (44-0) and in the final they managed to repeat a strong performance beating South Africa 29-17, despite a yellow card. It was Fiji’s first ever win at Dubai.

Unbelievable performance by @fijirugby bt @nz7s 44:0 in the first cup sf of the @Dubai7s. This could be the 1st ever win for Fiji at Dubai.

— 7bamboosrugby 🎋🏉 (@7BamboosRugby) November 30, 2013

England lost to South-Africa in the semi-final and to New Zealand in the playoff final, finishing the tournament on 4th place. In the other competitions, Argentina won the plate final, Australia claimed the bowl and France beat Spain to win the shield final. The next stop of the HSBC Sevens World Series is in just seven days in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Results of the Finals:

Cup Winner: Fiji

Runner-up: South Africa

Play-Off Winner: New Zealand

4^th Place: England

Plate Winner: Argentina

Runner-up: Wales

Bowl Winner: Australia

Runner-up: Portugal

Shield Winner: France

Runner-up: Spain

All results of Day 2:

Fiji 29 – 17 South Africa Final Cup

New Zealand 17 – 14 England Third Place

Argentina 21 – 5 Wales Final Plate

Portugal 12 – 17 Australia Final Bowl

Spain 17 – 28 France Final Shield

South Africa 26 – 12 England SF Cup

New Zealand 0 – 44 Fiji SF Cup

Kenya 19 – 24 Wales SF Plate

Argentina 12 – 5 Scotland SF Plate

Samoa 14 – 19 Australia SF Bowl

Portugal 33 – 24 Canada SF Bowl

France 19 – 14 United States SF Shield

Russia 5 – 17 Spain SF Shield

Wales 12 – 33 England QF Cup

South Africa 21 – 12 Kenya QF Cup

Fiji 26 – 14 Scotland QF Cup

New Zealand 26 – 19 Argentina QF Cup

Australia 47 – 7 United States QF Bowl

Samoa 21 – 10 France QF Bowl

Canada 22 – 12 Spain QF Bowl

Portugal 24 – 7 Russia QF Bowl

Video Highlights

Reactions

Standings after Round 2:

Team Points

1 New Zealand 39

2 Fiji 35

3 South Africa 34

4 England 32

5 Australia 27

6 Kenya 22

Wales 22

8 Argentina 18

9 Samoa 15

Scotland 15

Full List

For extended results and tables, statistics and reactions please visit the IRB SEVENS homepage.

Dubai 7s – Everything about the big party!

In the following 48 hours, at the coast of the United Arabic Emirates, roughly 2600 players will celebrate a huge 7s party in sunny 22^o degrees. In other words it is the weekend of the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens – now in its 44^th year. Since 1987 the tournaments head sponsor are the Emirates Airlines, which lends the competition its name. The tournament is unique in its structure as Dubai is the only event where an HSBC Sevens World Series event and an IRB Women’s World Series tournament run side by side.

The captains of the four top seeded teams ahead of the Dubai 7s 2013: Tom Powell (England), Ed Jenkins (Australia), DJ Forbes (NZ) and Kyle Brown (SA)

Another exciting fact about the second tournament of the HSBC Sevens World Series is that beside 16 world class international male teams and 12 international female teams, there are open competitions for amateur teams as well. 13 different invitational tournaments ranging from elite teams to U18 boys sides will host 200 teams.

In terms of the HSBC Sevens World Series competition, Samoa will try hard to defend their title, beating New Zealand in the 2012 final. In the women competition, New Zealand once again set the standards after beating South Africa in last year’s final.

With the world’s best sevens players, in one of the world’s best 7s stadium and thousands of 7s fans and players coming together the next two days promise a very special event for any 7s fan.

7 Bamboos Rugby will keep you updated via Twitter, Facebook and our homepage.

Here are the key platforms for the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens 2013:

The Tournament Website

The IRB SEVENS website

The Tournament and IRB SEVENS twitter accounts

All team guides