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New Zealand Women's National Rugby Union Team (sevens)
The New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team represents New Zealand in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. The team has participated in all rounds of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series since the competition's inception in 2012–13. New Zealand competed at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai. They lost to Australia 10–15 in the final in extra time. The New Zealand team has also won the 2013 and 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens tournaments. New Zealand won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics and gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics. They won the 2019 Fast Four in New Zealand. New Zealand has dominated the Women's Sevens Series, winning six series titles since its inception in 2012 – 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19 and 2019–20. History Early days New Zealand did not have any official women's sevens team; they were unofficially represented by the New Zealand Wild Duck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Hirini
Sarah Hirini (; born 9 December 1992) is a New Zealand women's rugby union player and two-time Olympic medalist. She plays for the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team, and captained the Manawatu Sevens side that took out the 2013 National Women's Sevens title in Queenstown. She was named in the squad for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. Early life Hirini was born on 9 December 1992 to Ronnie and Alan Goss. Her sister Rachael Rakatau also plays rugby and played for the Manawatū Cyclones in the Farah Palmer Cup championship in 2021 Her father Alan was a champion shearer who won a Golden Shears title in the 1985 intermediate shearing final. Her mother Ronnie was a master wool handler, winning 53 open finals, including the 2008 Golden Shears open title, as well as competing in the New Zealand open championships finals in Te Kuiti in 1999 and 2003, in the Golden Shears open final six times, the 2014 world championships in Ireland, and represented New Zealand in ten trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 New Zealand Women's Sevens
The 2019 New Zealand Women's Sevens Fast Four or Women's Fast Four was the inaugural women's sevens tournament held on 26–27 January 2019 at FMG Stadium Waikato, Hamilton alongside the 2019 New Zealand Sevens. In August 2018, New Zealand Rugby announced the Black Ferns Sevens would play France, England and China at the Women's Fast Four. Each team played four matches a week before round three of the Sydney Women's Sevens in Sydney. Although the Black Ferns Sevens had previously played exhibition matches in New Zealand, the 2019 HSBC New Zealand Sevens was the first time the team had competed in an international tournament on home turf. Format Each team played four matches in Hamilton: three matches within a round-robin format followed by a final playoff match. The top two teams met in the gold medal match, with the bottom two playing for bronze. The women's final matches were played directly before the men’s Cup final to complete the two days of competition at the 2019 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Bunting
Allan Bunting (born 11 February 1975) is a New Zealand rugby union and sevens coach. He previously coached the Black Ferns sevens and was the inaugural head coach of the Chiefs Manawa in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition. He was appointed as the Black Ferns fifteens coach in February 2023. Playing career Between 1999 and 2009 Bunting played for the New Zealand sevens team, the Chiefs, the Bay of Plenty Steamers and Tokyo Gas. Coaching career Bunting was the assistant coach for the Black Ferns Sevens from 2012 to 2016. He has also been the skills coach for the All Blacks Sevens and assistant coach for the Wellington Lions Sevens. Bunting replaced Sean Horan as head coach of the New Zealand women's sevens team after the 2016 Summer Olympics. After taking leave in 2019, he returned and co-coached the team with Cory Sweeney until the Tokyo Olympics. They won gold after defeating France in the Gold medal final. Bunting stepped down as co-coach after the Olympics and was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Horan
Sean Horan is a New Zealand rugby union and sevens coach. He coached the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team. He was appointed as head coach in 2012. He previously coached the Bay of Plenty Steamers, in the ITM Cup, from 2009, till his rather shocking departure in 2011. Horan's first achievement as head coach was winning the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Russia. In 2016, he helped New Zealand qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 .... He stepped down as coach for the New Zealand women's sevens team after the 2016 Olympics. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand rugby union coaches Rugby sevens in New Zealand Olympic coaches for New Zealand New Zealand national rugby sevens t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Women's National Rugby Sevens Team
The Australia women's national rugby sevens team, are the Australia national rugby sevens team of women. They were champions of the inaugural Women's Sevens World Cup in 2009. The team plays in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as one of the "core teams" on the world tour, of which they have been crowned Champions three times. The team also played in the preceding competition to the current world series, the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup. In 2016, they won the inaugural gold medal at the Rio Summer Olympics. Team name The national sevens side is known as Australia and, as confirmed by captain Sharni Williams, does not have a nickname as of 2015. The team was sometimes referred to as the ''Pearls'' in sections of the media, but that name refers to Australia's developmental sevens side rather than the official national team. As of 2015, the developmental team also competes in the Pacific Games Sevens. Honours Australia has won the following: World Rugby S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
