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2016 Wellington Sevens
The 2016 New Zealand Sevens was the third tournament within the 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series and the seventeenth edition of the Wellington Sevens. It was held over the weekend 30–31 January 2016 at Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand. Format The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Bowl/Shield brackets. Teams The 16 participating teams for the tournament: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Squads Final squads were announced on 28 January 2016. The most notable announced addition was the debut of 2015 Rugby World Cup winner Sonny Bill Williams for New Zealand. Pool Stage Pool A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Pool B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Pool C ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Pool D ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Knockout stage Shield Bowl Plate Cup Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 17th annual series of rugby union sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000. This season, the series expanded from nine to ten events. Core teams Fourteen teams from the 2014-15 season retained core status for the 2015–16 season. A fifteenth team, Russia, claimed core team status for the 2015–16 series at the 2015 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier. The core teams were: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Russia replaced Japan, which lost core team status having finished last of the fifteen core teams in the 2014–15 Sevens World Series. Tour venues The official schedule for the 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series is as follows: Changes There were three new tournaments in the series, with two events being discontinued: * The Canada Sevens was a new stop at BC Place in Vancouver, pair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosko Specman
Rosko Shane Specman (born 28 April 1989) is a South African rugby union player for the in Super Rugby, the in the Currie Cup and the in the Rugby Challenge. He played rugby sevens for the South Africa national rugby sevens team between 2014 and 2018 and also played Currie Cup rugby with the from 2010 to 2012, the from 2013 to 2015 and the in 2017. His usual position is winger. Specman was a member of the South African Sevens team that won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rugby career Youth At youth level, Specman played at the 2007 U18 Academy Week for Eastern Province Country Districts and then for the (now ) U19 team in the 2008 U19 Currie Cup competition. Vodacom Cup In 2009, Specman moved to the , where he played in their U19 team. He made his debut for the Sharks in the 2010 Vodacom Cup quarter final game against . He was a first choice player in the U21 team that year, scoring three tries. The following season, he scored four tries in five appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Powell
Johannes Daniel "Neil" Powell (born 28 June 1978) is a former South African Rugby Union player and currently the Director of Rugby of the Sharks Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorp .... He is the former Head Coach of the South African national rugby sevens team. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Neil 1978 births Living people Blue Bulls players Coaches of international rugby sevens teams Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players of South Africa Free State Cheetahs players Griquas (rugby union) players Lions (United Rugby Championship) players Rugby sevens players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Rugby union players from Windhoek Rugby union scrum-halves Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt O'Brien
Matt O'Brien (born 22 July 1981) is a New Zealand-born Australian professional rugby union referee. He has officiated on the IRB Sevens World Series circuit since 2011 and was appointed to the Super Rugby referees panel for 2014 and 2015. Family and early life O'Brien was born in Southland, New Zealand and is the son of former international rugby referee Paddy O'Brien. He studied pharmacy at the University of Otago where he played as a winger on the University's rugby team in the early 2000s, before he moved to the Gold Coast in Australia and established a pharmacy business. Refereeing After retiring from playing in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition for the Gold Coast Breakers, O'Brien took up rugby refereeing in 2008. He was appointed to the IRB Sevens World Series in 2011, and was the referee in three finals matches. He was named as one of 16 referees on the SANZAR referee panel for the 2014 season, and refereed his first match in Super Rugby between the Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Webber
Tevarn Joseph Webber (born 27 August 1993) is a player for the New Zealand rugby union sevens team. He was a member of the New Zealand under-20 squad in 2013. Webber was named in the sevens squad to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Of Māori descent, Webber affiliates to the Ngāti Ranginui Ngāti Ranginui is a Māori iwi (tribe) in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Its rohe (tribal area) extends from Waihi in the north, to the Kaimai Range in the west, to south of Te Puke in the south, and to Tauranga in the east. The rohe does not exte ... and Waikato (iwi), Waikato iwi. His sister Jordon Webber is a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby union team (sevens), New Zealand women's sevens team. Webber was part of the New Zealand national rugby sevens team, All Blacks Sevens squad that won a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. References External links * All Blacks Player Profile * * * * 1993 births Living people Bay of Plenty ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |