The Bahrain national rugby sevens team is a minor sevens side. They have competed in the
Hong Kong Sevens
The Hong Kong Sevens () is an rugby sevens tournament held annually in Hong Kong on a weekend in late March or early April. Considered the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series competition, the Hong Kong Sevens is currently the s ...
. They are traditionally seen as "minnows". For example, in the 1989 Hong Kong Sevens, they lost 52-0 to
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 ...
and 24-4 to the
Netherlands
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.
[McLaren, p70]
References
External links
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McLaren Bill, ''A Visit to Hong Kong'' in Starmer-Smith, Nigel & Robertson, Ian (eds) ''The Whitbread Rugby World '90'' (Lennard Books, 1989)
Rugby union in Bahrain
National rugby sevens teams
National sports teams of Bahrain
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