The 2019 New Zealand Sevens was the third tournament within the
2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 20th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World R ...
and the twentieth edition of the
New Zealand Sevens
The New Zealand national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. They have won a record 14 World Rugby Sevens Series titles.
The team played for the ...
. It was held on 26–27 January 2019 at
FMG Stadium Waikato
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Hamilton
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An invitational competition for women's teams, the
Women's Fast Four, was held alongside the men's tournament as the precursor to fully integrated men's and women's tournaments planned for Hamilton in 2020.
Format
The teams are 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 advance to the Cup bracket where teams compete for the Gold, Silver, and bronze medals. The bottom two teams from each group go to the Challenge Trophy bracket.
Teams
Fifteen core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, the highest-placing non-core team of the
2018 Oceania Sevens Championship, Tonga:
Pool stage
All times in New Zealand Daylight Time (
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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 stage
Thirteenth place
Challenge Trophy
Fifth place
Cup
Tournament placings
Source
World Rugby
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Players
Scoring leaders
Source
World Rugby
Dream Team
The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:
See also
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World Rugby Sevens 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 ...
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2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 20th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World R ...
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2019 New Zealand Women's Sevens Fast Four
The 2019 New Zealand Women's Sevens Fast Four or Women's Fast Four was the inaugural women's sevens tournament held on 26–27 January 2019 at Waikato Stadium, FMG Stadium Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton alongside the 2019 New Zealand Se ...
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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 competit ...
References
External links
Tournament siteWorld Rugby info
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
Sevens
January 2019 sports events in New Zealand