The 2022 Singapore Sevens was a
rugby sevens tournament played on 9–10 April 2022 at the
National Stadium
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in
Singapore
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. It was the ninth edition of the
Singapore Sevens
The Singapore Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament contested by national teams. It was first hosted as part of the IRB World Sevens Series in 2002. The Standard Chartered Bank was the original title sponsor. It was effectively replace ...
and the fifth tournament of the
2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 23rd annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999.
The series was won by , claiming their first World ...
. This was the first event in the series for which no invited teams featured in tournament, and all core teams were available.
In the cup final, it was
Fiji
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who took out their record third
Singapore title after they defeated
New Zealand
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by 28–17.
[ ]Australia
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narrowly defeated Ireland
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by 21–19 to finish in third place.South Africa
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, finished in equal-seventh place, and also lost their thirty-six match win streak in the pool stage against the United States
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by 7–12. Following South Africa
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's loss in the pool stage, they lost back-to-back in the knockout stage to Fiji
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( 19–14) and Argentina
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( 22–15), respectively.
Format
The sixteen teams were drawn into four pools of four. Each team played the three opponents in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup bracket, with the losers of the quarter-finals vying for a fifth place finish. The remaining eight teams that finished between either third or fourth in their pool played off for 9th place, with the losers of the 9th-place quarter-finals competing for 13th place.
Teams
The sixteen national teams competing in Singapore were:[
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]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 ...
returned from their absence since playing at the Dubai II event in November 2021.[
]New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
returned to the Sevens Series for the first time since the 2020 Vancouver event on 8 March 2020.Samoa
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also played their first tournament of the series in Singapore,[ returning after a similar hiatus to the New Zealand team.
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Pool stage
Key: Team advanced to the quarterfinals
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Knockout stage
13th–16th playoffs
9th–12th playoffs
5th–8th playoffs
Cup playoffs
Placings
See also
* 2022 Canada Women's Sevens
Notes
References
External links
Tournament site
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2022
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2021–22 World Rugby Sevens Series
2022 rugby sevens competitions
April 2022 sports events in Singapore
Singapore Sevens
The Singapore Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament contested by national teams. It was first hosted as part of the IRB World Sevens Series in 2002. The Standard Chartered Bank was the original title sponsor. It was effectively replace ...