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Rugby sevens (commonly known as simply sevens and originally known as 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. Rugby sevens is administered by World Rugby, the body responsible for rugby union worldwide. The ...
Seib joined the Sunnybank rugby club in Brisbane. [8] He played for the Queensland Under-21 team in 1995, [9] and was capped for the Australia 7s side, [5] touring in 1999 to Uruguay and Argentina.
In 2012, his contract as the NZ Sevens coach was extended through to 2016. [7] This allows Tietjens to be part of Sevens rugby's first inclusion in the Olympic Games. According to then-World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset, sevens' inclusion in the Olympics was "in no small way down to Gordon Tietjens. Through his knowledge, passion, and ...
World Rugby commentator Dallen Stanford interviews the King of Sevens, Waisale Serevi. Dallen Stanford (born May 16, 1979) is a South African-born, former American rugby union sevens player [1] and current international rugby commentator based in the United States.
Signes retired from coaching 15s rugby in 2013 after serving as head coach to Princeton for 9 years, although he still works as a coaching consultant. Signes founded Atlantis US Sevens Rugby in 1986. Between 1986 and mid-2014 Atlantis – men, women, boys, girls - has fielded 206 squads at 145 tournaments in 31 different countries.
Gareth Baber (born 23 May 1972) is a Welsh rugby player and coach. He is best known for coaching and leading the Fiji sevens team to win their second gold medal in rugby sevens at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He coached Fiji to their fourth World Sevens Series title. He has won the most tournaments in the world series as coach for the Fiji Islands.
The 1973 International Seven-a-side tournament was the first rugby sevens tournament to feature national representative teams, [1] predating the first official Rugby World Cup Sevens by twenty years. Held in Scotland as part of the Scottish Rugby Union's centenary celebrations, the tournament featured players from all eight of the members of ...
New Zealand is the most successful rugby sevens team at the Commonwealth Games. They have won five of the seven Commonwealth Games tournaments so far, and have finished second once. The team have only lost 2 matches at the Commonwealth Games, losing to South Africa in the final of the 2014 tournament and losing to Fiji in the semi-finals in the ...