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2020 Sydney Sevens
The 2020 Sydney Sevens was the fourth tournament in the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series and the eighteenth edition of the Australian Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 1–2 February 2019 at Western Sydney Stadium. won the tournament to claim their sixth Australian title, narrowly defeating in the final by 12–10. This was second tournament in 2019–20 to have only one team from each pool qualify to the cup knockout phase. Format The sixteen teams were drawn into four pools of four teams, with each team playing the others in their pool once. The knockout round qualifications were determined by the final pool standings, with the four teams that topped their pool advancing to the semifinals to compete for berths in the cup final or third place match. The remaining teams had only one further classification match each, based on their position, table points and differential in the pool standings. The four teams that finished second in their pool were paired into direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 21st annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000. In March 2020, World Rugby postponed all remaining tournaments in the series due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The events in London and Paris were postponed provisionally until September, preceding the Singapore and Hong Kong events previously postponed until October. On 30 June, the remaining four rounds of the series was cancelled which meant that New Zealand was awarded the title by 11 points over second place South Africa. Format Sixteen nations competed at each event, drawn into four pools of four teams. Following the pool matches at each tournament, the top eight teams (two teams from each pool) played off for a Cup, with gold, silver and bronze medals also awarded to the first three teams. The bottom eight teams after the pool matches played off for the lower-ranked placings from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Clarke (rugby Union)
Caleb Daniel Clarke (born 29 March 1999) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for the in the Super Rugby competition. His position of choice is wing. Clarke made his international debut for New Zealand in 2020 and has since played 12 tests. Early life Clarke attended Mount Albert Grammar School and was first selected for the school's First XV aged 14, where he played until 2016. Playing career Early career Clarke was selected for the All Blacks Sevens in 2018, following his first season for Auckland in the Mitre 10 Cup. Good performances for Auckland also led to Clarke's selection for the New Zealand U20's, for 2017 and 2018. In 2019, his second season of Super Rugby, Clarke also became a regular starter for the Blues, under new Head Coach, Leon MacDonald. 2020 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Clarke, as well as his teammates from the New Zealand Rugby Sevens team, were released to play for their provinces and Super Rugby clubs. Clarke was in career-best form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Treharne
People *Luke (given name), a masculine given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Luke (surname) (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Luke the Evangelist, author of the Gospel of Luke. Also known as Saint Luke. *Uncle Luke (born 1960), American rapper. Also known as Luke. *Luke (The Walking Dead), a fictional character from The Walking Dead Biblical books *Gospel of Luke, a Christian Gospel *Luke–Acts, the composite work of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament Music * ''Luke'' (album), by Steve Lukather *Luke (French band) * "LUKE", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from ''Glory Wars'' *Luke Records, a record label Organizations *''Accademia di San Luca'', (the "Academy of Saint Luke"), founded in 1577 as an association of artists in Rome *Guild of Saint Luke, a medieval artists' guild named after Saint Luke Places * Luke (Čajniče), a village in the municipality of Čajniče, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Jones (rugby Player)
Will Jones (born 12 March 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys as a flanker. He is a Wales under-20 international. Jones competed at the 2015 European Cadet Judo Championships The 2015 European Cadet Judo Championships is an edition of the European Cadet Judo Championships, organised by the International Judo Federation. It was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 3 to 5 July 2015. The final day of competition featured the ina .... Jones made his debut for the Ospreys in 2016 having previously played for the Ospreys academy and Swansea RFC. References External links Ospreys Player Profile 1998 births Living people Ospreys (rugby union) players People from the Gower Peninsula Rugby union players from Swansea Welsh rugby union players Rugby union flankers {{Wales-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Roach
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he, אברהם בן אברהם). Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen, e.g. Simon bar Kokhba ( he, שמעון בר כוכבא). Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as ''Ben'' (dialectal Arabic) or ''bin'' (بن), ''Ibn''/''ebn'' (ابن). People with the given name * Ben Adams (born 1981), member of the British boy band A1 * Ben Affleck (born 1972), American Academy Award-winning actor and screenwriter * Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer * Ben Askren (born 1984), American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist * Ben Banogu (born 1996), American football player * Ben Barba (born 1989), Australian rugby player * Ben Barnes (other), multiple people * Ben Bartch (born 1998), Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Amonde
Andrew Noel Omondi Amonde (born 25 December 1983) is a Kenyan rugby union player and television producer. He plays for Kenya's national sevens team and has been its captain since 2012. Amonde captained Kenya's Olympic sevens team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Volleyballer Mercy Moim Mercy Moim (born ) is a Kenyan volleyball player. She played with the Kenya national team in the 2010 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship. She was team captain for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (the only women's volleyball te ... and Amonde were chosen to be Kenya's flagbearers at the Olympics opening ceremony in Tokyo (Moim was the second woman to be given this honour following archer Shazad Anwar in 2016). References External links * * * * * 1983 births Living people Kenyan rugby union players Male rugby sevens players Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rugby sevens players of Kenya Kenya international rugby sevens players R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Rugby Union
The Argentine Rugby Union ( es, Unión Argentina de Rugby, abbreviated "UAR") is the governing body for rugby union in Argentina. It is a member of World Rugby, with a seat on that body's Executive Council, and a founding member of Sudamérica Rugby. The UAR organises all the national teams, including Senior (''Pumas''), U-20 (''Pumitas''), Argentina XV, Sevens and Women's squads and the franchise Jaguares that participates in SANZAAR's Super Rugby competition. History Origins The first rugby match in Argentina was played in 1873, in the Buenos Aires Cricket Club Ground sited in Palermo, Buenos Aires. Only 24 players (all of them were English) could meet to contest the match. The teams were named ''Bancos'' ("Banks" in Spanish) and ''Ciudad'' ("City") and formed with 11 and 13 players respectively. That same year, another match was played on the Polo Field of Flores AC, part of land owned by the Unzué family. The teams were called ''Inglaterra'' ("England") and ''El Mun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Thomas (rugby Union)
Will Thomas may refer to: * Will Thomas (basketball) (born 1986), American basketball player * Will Thomas (bowls) (born 1954), Welsh lawn and indoor bowler * Will Thomas (novelist) Will Thomas, born 1958 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a novelist who writes a Victorian mystery series featuring Cyrus Barker, a Scottish detective or "private enquiry agent," and his Welsh people, Welsh assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. The Barker ... (born 1958), American novelist See also * William Thomas (other) {{Hndis, Thomas, Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Goodchild
Joe Goodchild (born 12 April 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff RFC as a wing. Goodchild made his debut for the Dragons in 2016 having previously played for the Dragons academy, Cross Keys RFC and Garndiffaith RFC Garndiffaith Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Garndiffaith in South Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. The first games played by Garndiffaith RFC took p .... References External links Dragons profile Welsh rugby union players Rugby union wings [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngarohi McGarvey-Black
Ngarohi McGarvey-Black (born 20 May 1996) is a New Zealand professional rugby union player who plays as a wing for National Provincial Championship club Bay of Plenty and the New Zealand national sevens team. International career McGarvey-Black made his New Zealand men's sevens debut in Las Vegas in 2018. In 2020 he was named New Zealand Rugby Players Association (NZRPA) Players' Player of the Year. He was named in the New Zealand squad for the Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics. McGarvey-Black was part of the All Blacks Sevens squad that won a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. He later competed at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. He won a silver medal after his side lost to Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilimoni Koroi
Vilimoni Koroi (born 17 April 1998) is a New Zealand rugby union player. Koroi was born to Fijian parents Taniela and Seruwaia in Whanganui and was a student at Feilding High School. Koroi played his first match for the New Zealand national rugby sevens team at the 2017 Wellington Sevens The 2017 Wellington Sevens was the eighteenth edition of the Wellington Sevens tournament, and the third tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament was played on 28–29 January 2017 at Westpac Stadium in Wellington, Ne .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Koroi, Vilimoni Living people 1998 births New Zealand male rugby sevens players New Zealand international rugby sevens players New Zealand people of I-Taukei Fijian descent Rugby union players from Whanganui People educated at Feilding High School Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players of New Zealand Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regan Ware
Regan Edward Ware (born 7 August 1994) is a New Zealand rugby sevens and rugby union player. He debuted for New Zealand at the 2015 Dubai Sevens tournament. Ware was selected for the New Zealand squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Of Māori descent, Ware affiliates to the Ngāti Korokī Kahukura and Ngāti Porou iwi. Ware was part of the All Blacks Sevens squad that won a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. He competed at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. He won a silver medal after his side lost to Fiji in the gold medal final. Tasman Ware was named as a late signing for during the 2021 Bunnings NPC after a season ending injury to Mark Telea. He made his debut for Tasman in Round 5 of the competition against at Lansdowne Park Lansdowne Park is a urban park, historic sports, exhibition and entertainment facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, owned by the City of Ottawa. It is located on Bank Street adjacent to the Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
