The 2019 Japan Women's Sevens was the fourth tournament within the
2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the seventh edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. There were six tournament events scheduled on the 2018–19 circuit with twelve t ...
and the third edition of the
Japan Women's Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 20–21 April 2019 at
Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu.
Format
The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.
Teams
Eleven core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team,
2018 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2018 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the nineteenth edition of Asia's continental sevens tournament. The series will be played over three legs in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Sri Lanka.
The top two teams that are not already core teams o ...
winner Japan:
Pool stage
All times in
Japan Standard Time
, or , is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+09:00). Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During World War II, the time zone was often referred to ...
(
UTC+09:00)
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Knockout Stage
Challenge Trophy
5th Place
Cup
Tournament placings
Source
World Rugby
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Players
Scoring leaders
Source
World Rugby
See also
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World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, is a series of international rugby sevens tournaments for women's national teams run by World Rugby. The inaugural series was held in 2012–13 as the successor to the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup he ...
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2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the seventh edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. There were six tournament events scheduled on the 2018–19 circuit with twelve t ...
References
External links
World Rugby info
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2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
2019 in Japanese women's sport
2019 in women's rugby union
April 2019 sports events in Japan