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2023 London Sevens
The 2023 London Sevens was the final event of the 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series and the twenty-first edition of the London Sevens. It was held at Twickenham Stadium, London on 20–21 May 2023. Argentina won the Cup final, their third tournament victory for the season, by defeating Fiji 35–14. The competition format used in London was different to all previous events in the season as only twelve teams instead of sixteen were eligible to compete for the tournament cup. The other four teams competed for the one remaining core team berth for the 2023–24 World Rugby Sevens Series with the unsuccessful sides losing core team status. Canada won the play-off to retain core team status for 2023–24, defeating Kenya by 12–7. Format The twelve teams in the cup competition for the London Sevens were drawn into three pools of four. Each team played the three opponents in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup bracket, with the two best third-plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 24th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for men's national teams. The World Rugby Sevens Series, Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999. This series doubled as a qualifier for the Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2024 Olympic Games, with the top four countries, excluding hosts France national rugby sevens team, France, Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification, qualifying automatically. The series was won by New Zealand national rugby sevens team, New Zealand, winning five of the eleven tour events held during the season on their way to claiming their fourteenth World Series title. The next placed teams were, in order, Argentina national rugby sevens team, Argentina, Fiji national rugby sevens team, Fiji, France, Australia national rugby sevens team, Australia. Core teams The core teams eligible to participate in all tournaments for 2022–23 were: was prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaa Apelu Maliko
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Vaa may refer to: * Loch Vaa, a body of water in Highland, Scotland People with the surname * Aslaug Vaa (1889–1965), Norwegian poet and playwright * Dyre Vaa (1903–1980), Norwegian sculptor and painter * Shaun Onosa'i Vaa, American Samoan politician See also * * VAA (other) * Va'a Vaʻa is a word in Samoan language, Samoan, Hawaiian language, Hawaiian and Tahitian language, Tahitian which means 'boat', 'canoe' or 'ship'. It is cognate with other Polynesian words such as ''vaka (sailing), vaka'' or the Māori language, Māo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 London Sevens
The 2022 London Sevens was the twentieth edition of the annual rugby sevens event held at Twickenham Stadium, Richmond, London. The tournament winners were Australia. Australia won their second London Sevens event, beating trans-tasman rivals New Zealand in a thrilling extra-time victory (19–14). Two-time back-to-back defending champions Fiji finished third, beating Pacific Island neighbours Samoa 31–26. The final victory was the first Sevens Series Australia has won since their home Sevens Series win in 2018 (). Following the event Australia jumped from third to second on the Sevens Series ladder. Similarly New Zealand jumped two places following their second-place finish (eleventh to ninth). In World Rugby Sevens Series history, the second-last event of the series has been almost futile regarding seasonal points that the teams are vying for as most teams' points accrued in the second-last event would not affect their overall standing. However, during the 2021–22 season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Sevens
The London Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held at Twickenham Stadium in London. It is part of the World Rugby Sevens Series. London was added to the World Series for the first time in 2001. For many years the London Sevens was the last tournament of each season but the France Sevens, Paris Sevens became the last stop on the calendar in 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series, 2018. The current titleholder of the London Sevens are Australia, who beat New Zealand in the 2022 final. The London Sevens is one of the more popular stops on the World Series. The 2011 London Sevens set a single-day attendance record of over 54,000 fans, surpassing the attendance record set by the Dubai Sevens. The tournament has also drawn over 100,000 fans over the course of the weekend, making it one of the largest attended recurring events on the Twickenham stadium calendar. 2013 qualifier Uniquely, the 2013 edition was not only the final event in the series, but also incorporated the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twickenham Stadium
Twickenham Stadium (; usually known as Twickenham, and for sponsorship purposes known as the Allianz Stadium Twickenham) is a rugby union stadium in Twickenham, London, England. It is owned by the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the English rugby union governing body, which has its headquarters there. The stadium is England's List of national stadiums, national rugby union stadium and is the venue for the England national rugby union team's home matches. Twickenham is the world's largest rugby union stadium, the second largest stadium in the United Kingdom (behind Wembley Stadium), and the List of European stadia by capacity, fourth largest in Europe. The Middlesex Sevens, Premiership Rugby fixtures, Anglo-Welsh Cup matches, Harlequin F.C., Harlequins' annual The Big Game (rugby union), Big Game, the The Varsity Match, Varsity Match between University of Oxford, Oxford and University of Cambridge, Cambridge universities and European Rugby Champions Cup games have been played there. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round-robin Tournament
A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Merriam Co), p.1980. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, wherein participants are eliminated after a certain number of wins or losses. Terminology The term ''round-robin'' is derived from the French term ('ribbon'). Over time, the term became idiomized to ''robin''. In a ''single round-robin'' schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is frequently called a ''double round-robin''. The term is rarely used when all participants play one another more than twice, and is never used when one participant plays others an unequal number of times, as is the case in almost all of the major North American professional sports leagues. In the United Kingdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series – Men's Tour
The 2023 Challenger Series for men's rugby sevens teams was the third season of the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series, second-tier circuit that allowed a promotion pathway to the World Rugby Sevens Series. The men's challenger tour had twelve national teams competing and was played as two tournaments on 20–22 and 28–30 April 2023 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with the winner gaining entry to the 2023 London Sevens core team qualifier. Teams There were 12 men's national teams competing in the Challenger Series for 2023. Schedule The official schedule for the 2023 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series was: Standings Pool stage – Leg 1 All times are in South African Standard Time, SAST, South African Standard Time: (UTC+2:00, UTC+2). Pool A ---- ---- Pool B ---- ---- Pool C ---- ---- Ranking of third-placed teams Knockout stage – Leg 1 Cup bracket ;Cup quarter-finals ---- ---- ---- ;Cup semi-finals ---- ;Third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Rugby
World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international competitions, such as the World Rugby Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the World Rugby Under 20 Championship, World Under 20 Championship, and the Pacific Nations Cup. World Rugby's headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Its membership now comprises 133 national unions. Each member country must also be a member of one of the six regional unions into which the world is divided: Africa, North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Oceania. World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by , and , with joining in 1890. , and became full members in 1949. became a member in 1978 and a further 80 members joined from 1987 to 1999. The body was renamed the International Rugby Board (IRB) in 1998, and took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC+00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more. BST begins at 01:00 GMT every year on the last Sunday of March and ends at 02:00 BST on the last Sunday of October. The starting and finishing times of daylight saving were aligned across the European Union on 22 October 1995, and the UK retained this alignment after it left the EU; both BST and Central European Summer Time begin and end on the same Sundays at 02:00 Central European Time, 01:00 GMT. Between 1972 and 1995, the BST period was defined as "beginning at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day after the third Saturday in March or, if that day is Easter Day, the day after the second Saturday in March, and ending at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day after the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is the state-run media organisation of Kenya. It broadcasts in English and Swahili, as well as in most local languages of Kenya. The corporation was launched as a radio service in 1928 when Kenya was a British colony, making it the first radio station in Kenya. The radio station was launched as the East African Broadcasting Corporation (EABC) which relayed BBC News. In 1964, when Kenya became independent, and the corporation's name was changed to Voice of Kenya. In 1989, the Kenyan parliament reverted the corporation's name back to Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). During the rule of president Daniel arap Moi, KBC became the mouthpiece of the government. Each broadcast opened with a piece on what the president had been doing that day. Under the then president, Mwai Kibaki, KBC took a more objective approach. The corporation helped most of Kenya's notable journalists especially before the liberalization of the airwaves in Kenya. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
