The China Sevens, most recently hosted in

Huizhou Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in east-central Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Hey ...

, is an international

rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

tournament contested by national teams. The inaugural event, held in Shanghai, was a leg of the

IRB World 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 ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

. The tournament moved to Beijing for

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

. From 2009 to 2012 the tournament returned to Shanghai as an official event within the

Asian Sevens Series The Asia Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of regional rugby sevens tournaments run by Asia Rugby featuring national sevens teams. It has been held regularly since 2009 to determine Asia's best men's national team in the sport of rugby seve ...

. The event was hosted at the Chaoyang Stadium in Beijing for 2014, then

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

in 2015 and

in 2019.

Results

International men's teams

Key:
''Light blue border on the left indicates a tournament included in the World Rugby Sevens Series.''
''Dark blue border on the left indicates a tournament included in the

Asia Rugby Sevens Series The Asia Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of regional rugby sevens tournaments run by Asia Rugby featuring national sevens teams. It has been held regularly since 2009 to determine Asia's best men's national team in the sport of rugby seve ...

.''

Notes

Huizhou was scheduled for 26-27 September as the third leg of the 2020 Asian Sevens Series, prior to August 2020 when Asia Rugby cancelled all their remaining competitions for the year due to the impact of the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. Huizhou was scheduled for 25-26 September as the third leg of the 2021 Asian Sevens Series, but was subsequently replaced in the calendar by Dubai.

References

External links

Shanghai Sevens
{{DEFAULTSORT:China Former World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments International rugby union competitions hosted by China Rugby sevens competitions in Asia Recurring sporting events established in 2001 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2015 2001 establishments in China 2015 disestablishments in China

Results

International men's teams

See also

Notes

References

External links