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The 2025 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series for men's rugby sevens teams is the fifth season of the second-tier World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series that allows a promotion pathway to the top-level SVNS. The women's challenger tour with 12 national teams competing and will be played at same venues as their men's counterparts in Cape Town and ...
The Fiji national rugby sevens team has competed in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Olympics.Fiji won the gold medal in the inaugural rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Brazil, the country's first Olympic medal in any event, and repeated as Olympic champions in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, defeating New Zealand. [1]
Dates Men's Winner Women's Winner Dubai: The Sevens: Dubai: 30 November–1 December 2024 Fiji Australia: South Africa: DHL Stadium: Cape Town: 7–8 December 2024 South Africa New Zealand: Australia: HBF Park: Perth: 24–26 January 2025 Argentina Australia: Canada: BC Place: Vancouver: 21–23 February 2025 Hong Kong: Kai Tak Stadium: Hong ...
She was a non-playing reserve for the Fiji sevens team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was called-up to the Fiji seven team for the SVNS World Series in Hamilton, New Zealand in January 2023. [4] She scored a try as Fiji won the Oceania Rugby Championship Olympic Qualifier women’s final against Papau New Guinea in November 2023. [7]
Samoa will play in the men’s sevens rugby tournament at next year’s Paris Olympics after beating Papua New Guinea 24-0 in a qualifying final at the Oceania Sevens tournament on Sunday. “I ...
The home team took gold in Rugby Sevens, handing Fiji its first-ever Olympic loss in a title game since the sport entered the Olympics in 2016. Fiji won gold in Rio, then again in Tokyo.
The first season of the World Sevens Series was the 1999–2000 season. At the Series launch, the chairman of the International Rugby Board, Vernon Pugh, described the IRB's vision of the role of this new competition: "this competition has set in place another important element in the IRB’s drive to establish rugby as a truly global sport, one with widespread visibility and steadily ...
Defending champion New Zealand knocked out Fiji 19-12 with a last-minute try to reach the Hong Kong Sevens semifinals on Saturday. Iconic Hong Kong's most successful men's teams, who have met in ...