The 2019 Singapore Sevens was a

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tournament played at the

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in Singapore on 13–14 April 2019. It was the eighth edition of the Singapore Sevens and the eighth tournament of the

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. In the cup final, it was

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who took out their second Singapore title after they defeated

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by a single point. Third was

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after they defeated

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by 21 points.

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won the challenge trophy after defeating

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in the final.

Background

The Singapore Sevens is the eighth time that the Singapore event has been held with the seventh being in a World Series event. After winning the

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for the fifth consecutive time in the previous round,

jumped past

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to be in second place on the table. The

still had the lead in the series but it was lowered down to only a seven-point gap between them and second place. For those two nations, depending on the results from the weekend they had a chance to book their spot at the

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in Tokyo. Fourth place is

with 99 points who hold a nine-point advantage over

Format

Sixteen teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays all the others in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group advance to the Challenge Trophy quarter finals.

Teams

Fifteen core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, runner-up of the

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, Hong Kong:

Pool stage

All times in

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( UTC+08:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Knockout stage

Thirteenth place

Challenge Trophy

5th place

Cup

Tournament placings

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Players

Scoring leaders

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World Rugby

Dream Team

The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:

References

External links

Tournament page

World Rugby page
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