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Oceania was unable to hold any qualifying tournament due to the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 in 2021 and 2022. Fiji and New Zealand had qualified automatically as quarterfinalists from the 2018 Sevens World Cup. Australia and Samoa qualified due to finishing 4th and 12th, respectively, in the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series. [16]
Rugby World Cup Sevens (RWCS) is the quadrennial world championship of rugby sevens, a variant of rugby union. Organised by World Rugby , it currently consists of men's and women's tournaments, and is the highest level of competition in the sport outside of the Summer Olympics .
The total number of teams for the 2023–24 Sevens Series was reduced from sixteen to twelve, similar to the Women's series. [1] Canada men won the Promotion/Relegation play-off in London on 21 May 2023, [ 2 ] and thus make up the twelfth team and South Africa women were promoted from the Challenger Series.
The 2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series for men's rugby sevens teams was the fourth season of the second-tier World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series that allowed a promotion pathway to the top-level SVNS. The women's challenger tour had 12 national teams competing and was played as three tournaments in Dubai, Montevideo and Munich.
The first season of the World Sevens Series was the 1999–2000 season. At the Series launch, the chairman of the International Rugby Board, Vernon Pugh, described the IRB's vision of the role of this new competition: "this competition has set in place another important element in the IRB’s drive to establish rugby as a truly global sport, one with widespread visibility and steadily ...
The team capped off the season by winning the 2015 London Sevens after defeating Australia in the cup final, the first time the U.S. has won a World Series tournament. [12] Carlin Isles set a U.S. record with 32 tries for the season and Madison Hughes set a record with 296 points.
Owing to the postponement of the 2022 RAN Super Sevens (originally scheduled to be held in Mexico City during February 2022), this event was created specifically to maintain qualification pathways to the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens (top two teams), 2022 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series and 2022 Commonwealth Games (top team not already ...
2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens; Tournament details; Host nation 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens: Dates: 9 – 11 September 2022: No. of nations: 24: Final positions; Champions Fiji: Runner-up New Zealand: Third place Ireland: Tournament statistics; Matches played: 52: Tries scored: 276 (average 5.31 per match) Top scorer(s) Brock Webster (35) Most ...