The NZI Wellington Sevens is played annually as part of the
IRB Sevens World Series
The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World ...
for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
). The 2009 competition, which takes place on 6 and 7 February is the third Cup trophy in the
2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series
The 2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series was the tenth of an annual IRB Sevens World Series of rugby union sevens tournaments for full national sides run by the International Rugby Board since 1999–2000.
South Africa clinched the 2008–09 Wo ...
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Pool Stages
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Knockout
Shield
Bowl
Plate
Cup
Statistics
Individual points
Individual tries
References
External links
New Zealand Rugby 7son irb.com
Wellington Sevens Profile on UR7s.com
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Wellington Sevens
The New Zealand Sevens was an annual rugby sevens tournament held at Waikato Stadium in Hamilton, New Zealand. For the first eighteen years of its history the event was held in Wellington. The event was the third on the World Rugby Sevens Serie ...
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ...
2009
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