Here is an overview of the teams which took part at the
2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens
The 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the third edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens and was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina. New Zealand defeated Australia to win the tournament for the first time. This was the first major rugby event ever held ...
Rupeni Caucaunibuca
Rupeni Caucaunibuca (; born 5 June 1980) is a retired Fijian rugby union footballer who last played professionally for Northland in the ITM Cup. His nickname was the "Bua Bullet" as he hailed from the province of Bua.
Early years
Caucaunibuca ...
Taniela Qauqau Taniela is a given name of Pacific Islander origin. Notable people with the name include:
*Taniela Lasalo, Australian rugby league player
*Taniela Moa, Tongan rugby union player
*Taniela Rawaqa, Fijian rugby union player
*Taniela Tuiaki, New Zealan ...
Waisale Serevi
Waisale Tikoisolomoni Serevi (born 20 May 1968) is a Fijian former rugby union football player and coach, and is a member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Serevi is renowned for his achievements in rugby sevens, while also enjoying a long car ...
Marika Vunibaka
Marika "Dawainavesi" Vunibaka (born 3 November 1974) is a Fijian former rugby union player. He represented the Fiji national team on numerous occasions, including at the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales and the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia. ...
Diego Albanese
Diego Luis Albanese (born September 17, 1973, in Mar del Plata) is a former Argentina, Argentine rugby union player who played as a Wing (rugby union), winger. He played for the San Isidro Club in Argentina, French side Grenoble, Gloucester RFC, G ...
Felipe Contepomi
Felipe Contepomi (born 20 August 1977) is an Argentine rugby coach who is currently the backs coach at Leinster Rugby. He was a rugby union footballer who played fly-half or centre; his last club was Club Newman, in the first division of the U ...
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Ignacio Corleto
Ignacio Saul ("Nani") Corleto (born June 21, 1978 in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine rugby union player. He played as a fullback.
Club career
He began his rugby career in the local Club Universitario de Buenos Aires, known as CUBA, where he p ...
Francisco Leonelli
Francisco Leonelli (born 3 May 1978) is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for Saracens F.C. in the Guinness Premiership. He has represented the Argentina national team, having previously playing for the under-19s and under-21 ...
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José María Núñez Piossek
José María Núñez Piossek (born 6 December 1976, in Tucumán) is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for Scottish club Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic League. He has also represented the Argentina national team, including ...
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Santiago Phelan
Santiago Phelan (born March 31, 1974 in San Isidro, Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine rugby union footballer. His usual position was flanker.
Phelan played for Argentine club Club Atlético San Isidro and represented the Argentina national ...
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Agustín Pichot
Agustín Pichot (born 22 August 1974, in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine rugby union player, formerly captain of the Argentine team and the English club Bristol. In addition to Bristol, he played for French sides Stade Français and Rac ...
Chun Jong-Man
Chun may refer to:
Places
* Chun River in Thailand
* Chun District in Phayao Province, Thailand
* Chûn Castle, a hillfort in the United Kingdom
* Commandery (China) (), an administrative division of imperial China
People and names
* Jeon (K ...
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Kim Hyung-Ki
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese ...
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Kim Jae-Hyun
Kim Jae-hyun is a South Korean drummer, actor, model and singer. He is known for his roles in dramas such as '' Modern Farmer'', ''Sisters-in-law'' and ''Kimi to Sekai ga Owaru Hi ni: Season 1''. He is a member of the South Korean band N.Flying ...
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Lee Jin-Wook
Lee Jin-wook (Korean: 이진욱; born September 16, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his leading role in the romance series '' Glass Castle'', the time-traveling series ''Nine'' (2013), romance series '' The Time We Were Not i ...
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Park Chang-Min
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Jimmy Stonehouse
James Stonehouse (born in Krugersdorp, South Africa) is a South African rugby union coach and the head coach of Currie Cup side the .
Rugby union
Early career
As a player, Stonehouse played hooker for . During his playing days, he was also a ...
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Nikolay Nerush Nikolay Vladimirovich Nerush (russian: Николай Владимирович Неруш) (born Moscow, 24 July 1960) is a Russian rugby union coach and a former player.
He played for VVA-Podmoskovye Monino.
He was the head coach of Russia, from ...
Andrew Dunne
Andrew "Andy" Dunne born 18 October 1979 in Castleknock Dublin, Ireland is a former professional rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half ...
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James Ferris
James "Jim" P. Ferris (1932 – March 4, 2016) was an American chemist. He is known for his contributions to the understanding of the origins of life on Earth, specifically by demonstrating a successful mechanism of clay-catalyzed polymeri ...
Conor McPhillips
Conor McPhillips (Irish name: ''Conchobhar MacPhilib'' ; born 9 February 1981) is a former rugby union player from Ireland, who currently works as an assistant coach for English Premiership side Bristol Bears. McPhillips spent his professional pl ...
James Topping
James “Jimmy” Topping (born 18 December 1974) is an Irish rugby former player and current coach. As a player, he won eight caps for the Ireland national rugby union team between 1996 and 2003, playing on the wing. Topping was born in Belfast ...
Benjamin Ayimba
Benjamin Ayimba (27 August 1976 – 22 May 2021) was a rugby player and coach of the Kenya sevens rugby team.
Career
Ayimba played for Nondescripts RFC 2002 before moving to Cornish Pirates in England between 2003 and 2005. He played in t ...
Alan Hicks
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People
*Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname
*Alan (given name), an English given name
**List of people with given name Alan
''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.''
* A ...
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Paul Murunga
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
Chester Williams
Chester Mornay Williams (8 August 1970 – 6 September 2019) was a South African rugby union player. He played as a winger for the South Africa national rugby union team (Springboks) from 1993 to 2000, most notably for the team that won the ...
André Pretorius
André Stefan Pretorius (born 29 December 1978 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union footballer that played professionally between 1999 and 2014. His usual position was at fly-half. He has been capped by his count ...
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Bob Skinstad
Robert Brian Skinstad (born 3 July 1976) is a former rugby union professional player who has represented the South African national team, the Springboks. He played in the positions of flanker and number eight.
Education
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Rodger Smith
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Paul Treu
Paul Treu (born 23 July 1971 in Swellendam) is a former rugby union player and currently a coach at . He played for the South African Sevens between 1999 and 2003 and was named head coach of the side in 2004, where he remained until his resignat ...
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Breyton Paulse
Breyton Paulse (born 25 April 1976 in De Keur, Koue Bokkeveld) is a South African former rugby union player who played on the wing for the national team, the Springboks, from 1999 to 2007. He played 64 test matches for South Africa, scoring 26 t ...
Sébastien Viars
Sébastien Viars (born 24 June 1971) is a former French rugby union footballer. He was nicknamed "The Compass". He played as a centre and as a wing.
Viars was born at Aurillac. He played at Stade Aurillacois (1989/90-1991/92), CA Brive (1992/93-1 ...
Farid Sid
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Ric Suggitt
Richard Allan "Sluggo" Suggitt (October 30, 1958 June 27, 2017) was a Canadian rugby union footballer and a rugby union coach. Ric was also the head coach of the USA Women's 7's Olympic team and was the head coach at University of Lethbridge.
He ...
Malkhaz Cheishvili
Malkhaz Cheishvili ( ka, მალხაზ ჭეიშვილი) (born Tbilisi, 18 October 1959) is a Georgian rugby union coach. He was the coach of Georgia at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals.
He managed to lose by less than a try to Irel ...
Bessik Khamashuridze Bessik Khamashuridze (geo: ბესიკ ხამაშურიძე; born 14 August 1977, in Kutaisi) is a former Georgian rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a fullback.
Khamashuridze played for Rugby Club Cannes Mandelieu, ...
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Vasil Katsadze Vasil Katsadze ( ka, ვასილ კაცაძე; born Potsdam, 16 July 1976) is a Georgian rugby union and rugby league player. He played as a wing and as a flanker in rugby union.
Katsadze moved to France, where he played in AS Béziers ( ...
Gordon Tietjens
Sir Gordon Frederick Tietjens (born 9 December 1955) is head coach of the Samoa rugby sevens team, and a celebrated former coach of the New Zealand men's national team in rugby sevens, the All Blacks Sevens. When the International Rugby Boar ...
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Rodney So'oialo
Rodney So'oialo (born 3 October 1979 in Motoʻotua, Samoa) is a New Zealand rugby union player who recently played in Japan for the Honda Heat. He is now the director of rugby and head coach at Trinity College Kandy, Sri Lanka. Previously, he h ...
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Eric Rush
Eric James Rush (born 11 February 1965 in Kaeo) is a New Zealand former rugby union footballer and rugby sevens legend, and now a supermarket owner. His New Zealand Sevens career began in 1988 and ran until past his 39th birthday in 2004. Ru ...
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Jared Going
Jared is a given name of Bible, Biblical derivation.
Origin
In the Book of Genesis, the Jared (biblical figure), biblical patriarch Jared (יֶרֶד) was the sixth in the ten pre-Noah's Ark, flood generations between Adam and Noah; he was the ...
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Karl Te Nana
Karl Solomon Te Nana (born 15 July 1975) is a New Zealand former rugby union and rugby league footballer, and currently works in broadcasting as a rugby commentator.
A professional rugby union player, Te Nana won a gold medal as part of the Ne ...
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Amasio Valence
Amasio Valence (born 12 May 1979) is a former rugby sevens player. He was born in Nadi, Fiji, but after he first made his break into professional rugby in 2000, he switched allegiances to New Zealand. He was hailed as one of the most promisin ...
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Brad Fleming
Bradley Fleming (born 26 January 1976) is a rugby union footballer from New Zealand, who plays in the Winger (sport), wing position. He won a gold medal as part of the New Zealand national rugby sevens team, New Zealand sevens rugby team at the ...
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Jonah Lomu
Jonah Tali Lomu (12 May 1975 – 18 November 2015) was a New Zealand professional rugby union player. Lomu is considered to have been the first true global superstar of rugby, and consequently had a huge impact on the game. He is widely regarde ...
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Mils Muliaina
Junior Malili "Mils" Muliaina (born 31 July 1980) is a former professional rugby union player who most recently played for San Francisco Rush in the US PRO Rugby competition. He played primarily as a fullback, though he has also played as a ...
Roger Randle
Roger Quentin Randle (born 15 May 1974 in Hastings, New Zealand) is a New Zealander, New Zealand former rugby union player. He played as a Wing (rugby union), wing for the All Blacks. He is currently assistant coach for Chiefs and Maori All Bla ...
Joe Worsley
Joseph Paul Richard Worsley, (born 14 June 1977) is a retired English rugby union player who played flanker for Wasps and England.
Biography
Worsley was born in London and educated at Hitchin Boys' School and Brunel University. He joined ...
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Paul Sampson
Paul Christian Sampson (born 12 July 1977) is an English rugby union and rugby league player who played at Wing (rugby union), wing or Fullback (rugby union), full-back for London Welsh, Blackheath R.C., Blackheath, Worcester Rugby Football Cl ...
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Mike Friday
Michael John "Mike" Friday (born April 25, 1972) has been the head coach of the United States national rugby sevens team since summer 2014. Friday was appointed head coach after the U.S. coach for the 2013–14 season, Matt Hawkins, was asked to ...
Josh Lewsey
Owen Joshua Lewsey MBE (born 30 November 1976) is an English former rugby union player who represented England and the British and Irish Lions. Lewsey is a former British Army Officer.
Background and early life
Lewsey was born in Bromley, Lo ...
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Paul Sackey
Paul Henry Sackey (born 8 November 1979) is a retired English rugby union footballer who played on the wing, most recently for Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership.
He is an England international. He has also played for the England Saxons an ...
Paulo Nawalu
Paulo Nawalu, spelt also as ''Paula Nawalu'' (born October 18, 1959 in Lautoka) is a former rugby union player. He played as a scrum-half.
Career
His first international match was against Tonga, at Suva, on June 8, 1983. He was also part of the ...
Hajime Kiso
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Toru Kurihara
is a Japanese rugby union player. He plays as a fullback or wing.
He played for Suntory Sungoliath.
Kurihara had 27 caps for Japan, from 2000 to 2003, scoring 20 tries, 71 conversions and 35 penalties, 347 points on aggregate. He played four t ...
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Ryohei Miki
(born Tokyo, 24 March 1978) is a Japanese former rugby union player. He played as wing and as centre.
Career
In 1996, after graduating from Kyoto Gakuen High School, Miki entered Ryukoku University, where he would play the All-Japan University R ...
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Daisuke Ohata
is a former Japanese rugby union player. He usually played on the wing, and sometimes at centre, for the Japanese national team. He made his name internationally as a speedy ace in the World Rugby Sevens Series (then known as the IRB World Sevens ...
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Shinji Ono
is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for J1 League club Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo.
Career Urawa Reds
Ono grew up in the Shizuoka Prefecture and began his professional career with Urawa Reds in the J1 League in 1998. ...
Takeomi Ito
(born April 11, 1971 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese rugby union footballer. He plays rugby as blindside flanker or no.8 for Kobelco Steelers in the Japanese Top League and also in the Japan national rugby union team. He played in both the 1999 Ru ...
Oriol Ripol
Oriol Ripol (born 6 September 1975, in Catalonia) is a rugby union footballer from Spain.
He previously played for Rotherham, Northampton, Worcester Warriors (whom he left in 2011.) and Sale Sharks, and has represented the Barbarians. In the 2005 ...
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Alberto Socías
Alberto Socías Olmos (born 16 May 1973 in Valencia) is a former Spanish rugby union player and coach. He plays as a centre.
He is the younger brother of Antonio Socías, who also was former Spanish international.
Career
His first international ...
Tafadzwa Manyimo
Tafadzwa Manyimo (born March 17, 1977) was a Zimbabwean cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He was born in Bulawayo.
Manyimo made his debut first-class appearance for a Matabeleland Select XI during a York ...
Semo Sititi
Semo Sititi (born 6 March 1974) is a rugby union footballer in Samoa. He was born in Motootua.
Career
He is a flanker and currently plays for Ricoh in Japan, having previously played for Celtic League side Border Reivers and Manu Samoa interna ...
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Steven So'oialo
Steven So'oialo (born 11 May 1977 in Apia, Samoa) is a Samoan rugby union footballer. He played scrum-half for English club Harlequins and formerly Orrell. He played for Manu Samoa in the 1999 and 2003 Rugby World Cup. He also played for the P ...
Tanner Vili
Tanner Vili (born 13 May 1976) is a New Zealand/Samoan rugby union footballer. He plays as a fly-half and full back
He played for Samoa at the 1999 Rugby World Cup and 2003 Rugby World Cup
The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth Rugby Wor ...
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Glen Ella
Glen Joseph Ella (born 5 June 1959) is a former Australian rugby union player and coach. Ella played as a Fullback for Randwick, Manly and New South Wales. Ella also represented Australia in the 1980s, however, did not play at the first Rugby W ...
Ed Carter
Ed, ed or ED may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc
* Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media
* ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran fro ...
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. ...
Gareth Baber
Gareth Baber (born 23 May 1972) is a Welsh former rugby player and now a rugby union 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 Fij ...
Andy Marinos
Andy Marinos is a Zimbabwean former rugby footballer who played rugby league and rugby union professionally and represented Wales at rugby union.
Rugby league career
Marinos signed for Australian rugby league club the Sydney Bulldogs in 1996, p ...
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Emyr Lewis
Emyr Lewis (born 29 August 1968) Scrum.com is a former
Gareth Wyatt
Gareth Wyatt (born 4 March 1977 in Pontypridd) is a Welsh rugby union player who has won two caps for the Wales national rugby union team.
Education
A fluent Welsh speaker, Wyatt attended Ysgol Gymraeg Llantrisant (Llantrisant Welsh Primary Sc ...
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Shane Williams
Shane Mark Williams, (born 26 February 1977) is a Welsh rugby union player most famous for his long and successful tenure as a wing for the Ospreys and the Wales national team. He also played scrum-half on occasion. Williams is the record t ...
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Andy Williams
Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hos ...
Miguel Barbosa
Miguel Ângelo Freitas Barbosa, known as Miguel Barbosa (born 16 October 1996), is a Portuguese football defender who plays for FK Sloboda Užice in the Serbian First League.
Club career
Born in Funchal, the capital of Madeira islands, a Portu ...
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Frederico Sousa
Frederico Abreu Sousa (born Lisbon, 18 August 1978) is a former Portuguese rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a centre. His team was Direito.
He was one of the most experienced players for the Portuguese squad, and was a membe ...
Jovesa Naivalu
Jovesa Seuseu "Jojo" Naivalu (born 19 March 1978) is a Fiji-American athlete.
In the sport of athletics, Naivalu is the Fiji national record holder in both the 110 metres hurdles and the 400 metres hurdles. He represented Fiji at the 1996 Summ ...