2020 Women's Rugby Sevens Final Olympic Qualification Tournament

The final qualification repechage tournament for women's rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 19–20 June 2021 at Stade Louis II in Monaco.[1] The tournament was originally scheduled for a year earlier,[2] but was postponed until 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

2020 Women's Rugby Sevens Final Olympic Qualification Tournament
The tournament venue, Stade Louis II.
HostsMonaco Monaco
Date19–20 June 2021
Nations11
Qualification winners
 France and Russia 
2016
2024

Twelve women's teams were eligible to compete in the repechage tournament, as high placing teams from the six continental Olympic qualification events. Jamaica was a late withdrawal from the tournament due to travel difficulties presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of teams competing to eleven.[4]

France and Russia were the two best teams in the repechage, each going through the tournament undefeated. They claimed the two qualifying berths on offer for the women's sevens tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.[2][5]

Teams

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Event Dates Location Quota Qualifier
2019 South American Qualifying Tournament 1–2 June 2019   Lima 2   Colombia

  Argentina
2019 RAN Women's Sevens 6–7 July 2019   George Town 2   Mexico

  Jamaica[note 1]
2019 European Qualifying Tournament 13–14 July 2019   Kazan 2   Russia

  France
2019 Africa Women's Sevens 12–13 October 2019   Jemmal 2   Madagascar

  Tunisia
2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship 7–9 November 2019   Suva 2   Papua New Guinea

  Samoa
2019 Asian Qualifying Tournament 9–10 November 2019   Guangzhou 2   Hong Kong

  Kazakhstan
Total 11 teams
  • Notes:
  1. ^ Jamaica was a late withdrawal from the tournament due to travel difficulties presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

Pool stage

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The teams were drawn into three pools with each team playing against all opponents in their own pool.[6] Due to the late withdrawal of Jamaica, all matches involving them were recorded as a bye for their opponents in Pool B.[4][7]

Pool A

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
  Russia (Q) 3 3 0 0 128 7 +121 9
  Argentina (Q) 3 2 0 1 58 53 +5 7
  Samoa (Q) 3 1 0 2 32 64 −32 5
  Mexico 3 0 0 3 17 111 −94 3
Source: [citation needed]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
19 June
10:58
Argentina  36–0  Mexico
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
19 June
11:20
Russia  32–0  Samoa
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

19 June
16:16
Argentina  15–12  Samoa
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
19 June
17:00
Russia  55–0  Mexico
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

20 June
10:41
Mexico  17-20  Samoa
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
20 June
11:03
Russia  41–7  Argentina
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

Pool B

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
  Kazakhstan (Q) 2 2 0 0 29 10 +19 6
  Tunisia (Q) 2 1 0 1 46 17 +29 4
  Papua New Guinea 2 0 0 2 15 63 −48 2
Source: [citation needed]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
19 June
14:08
Papua New Guinea  5–46  Tunisia
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

19 June
17:00
Kazakhstan  12–0  Tunisia
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

20 June
11:47
Papua New Guinea  10–17  Kazakhstan
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

Pool C

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
  France (Q) 3 3 0 0 151 0 +151 9
  Hong Kong (Q) 3 2 0 1 50 77 −27 7
  Colombia (Q) 3 1 0 2 22 85 −63 5
  Madagascar 3 0 0 3 19 80 −61 3
Source: [citation needed]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
19 June
14:30
Hong Kong  31–10  Colombia
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
19 June
14:52
France  49–0  Madagascar
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

19 June
19:31
Hong Kong  19–12  Madagascar
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
19 June
19:53
France  47–0  Colombia
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

20 June
12:09
Colombia  12–7  Madagascar
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
20 June
12:31
France  55–0  Hong Kong
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

Combined standings

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The top two teams from each pool, plus the two best third-placed teams on the combined pool standings progressed to the knockout stage.[8] The seedings were based on (a) highest pool placing, then (b) most competition points awarded (for a win, draw or loss) in the respective pool standings, and (c) greatest difference between points scored and conceded across all pool matches played.

# Team Place Pld −/+ Pts
1   France 1st C 3 +151 9
2   Russia 1st A 3 +121 9
3   Kazakhstan 1st B 2 +19 6
4   Argentina 2nd A 3 +5 7
5   Hong Kong 2nd C 3 –27 7
6   Tunisia 2nd B 2 +29 4
7   Samoa 3rd A 3 –32 5
8   Colombia 3rd C 3 –63 5
9   Papua New Guinea 3rd B 2 –48 2
10   Madagascar 4th C 3 –61 3
11   Mexico 4th A 3 –94 3
Key
Qualifier semi-finalists
  1st placed in pool
  2nd placed in pool
  Two best 3rd placed

Knockout stage

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With two Olympic places available, the top eight women's teams from the pool stage were seeded into two separate four-team brackets. The winners of each bracket qualified for the women's sevens tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.[5][6]

Qualifier semi-finals Qualifier final 1
      
3   Kazakhstan 29
6   Tunisia 21
3   Kazakhstan 0
2   Russia 38
2   Russia 29
7   Samoa 0
Qualifier semi-finals Qualifier final 2
      
4   Argentina 5
5   Hong Kong 24
5   Hong Kong 0
1   France 51
1   France 52
8   Colombia 0

Qualifier semi-finals

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20 June
14:55
Argentina  5–24  Hong Kong
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
20 June
15:17
Kazakhstan  29–21  Tunisia
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
20 June
15:39
Russia  29–0  Samoa
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
20 June
16:01
France  52–0  Colombia
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

Qualifier finals

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20 June
18:07
Kazakhstan  0–38  Russia
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco
20 June
18:37
Hong Kong  0–51  France
Report
Stade Louis II, Monaco

Placings

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Legend
Qualified to 2020 Summer Olympics
Rank Team
1   France
  Russia
3   Kazakhstan
  Hong Kong
5   Argentina
  Tunisia
  Samoa
  Colombia
9   Papua New Guinea
  Madagascar
  Mexico

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Monaco has been selected to host the World Rugby Sevens Repechage". Asia Rugby. 2020-12-17. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  2. ^ a b "World Rugby and IOC confirm rugby sevens qualification process for Tokyo 2020". insidethegames.biz. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Monaco to host final Olympics rugby sevens qualifier". China News. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Zimbabwe enjoy winning start to Olympic Repechage in Monaco". Africa News. 19 June 2021. Archived from the original on 19 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b "World Rugby Sevens Repechage ready for kick-off". Boxscore. 18 June 2021. Archived from the original on 20 June 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Match schedule Olympic Repechage Women's". World Rugby. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Olympic repechage: Women's pools". World Rugby. 20 June 2021. Archived from the original on 20 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Competition format: Women's repechage". World Rugby. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.