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2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the sixth edition of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. Five tournament events were scheduled on the 2017–18 circuit and twelve teams competed in each tournament. Format Twelve teams compete at each event. The top-ranked teams at each tournament play off for a Cup, with gold, silver and bronze medals also awarded to the first three teams. Lower-ranked teams at each tournament play off for a Challenge Trophy. The overall winner of the series was determined by points gained from the standings across all events in the season. Teams The "core teams" qualified to participate in all series events for the 2017–18 series were: * * * * * * * * * * One additional core team qualified through winning the 2017 Hong Kong Women's Sevens: * Events There were five tournaments in 2017–18: Standings Official standings for the 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia Woodman
Portia Woodman-Wickliffe (née Woodman; born 12 July 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and was a member of the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team and New Zealand women's national rugby union team. Woodman was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team that won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She retired from international sevens rugby after the Paris Olympics. In 2022, Woodman became the first woman to score 200 tries in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, Sevens Series. In May 2024, Woodman became the first woman to score 250 tries in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, Sevens Series. In May 2025 she became New Zealand’s leading women’s fifteen-a-side try scorer of all time. Early life Woodman was born in Kawakawa, New Zealand, Kawakawa on 12 July 1991 to Kathryn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westhills Stadium
Starlight Stadium (formerly Westhills Stadium) is a 6,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Langford, British Columbia, Canada. It is used by Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League for soccer, by Rugby Canada for various events, and by the Westshore Rebels junior Canadian football team. In an international context, its most notable usage is as the site of the Canada Women's Sevens, an event in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series for national rugby sevens teams. The stadium also hosted the BC Bears of the Canadian Rugby Championship from 2009 to 2013, and the Victoria Highlanders soccer team from 2009 to 2011. The main stadium seats 6,000 and has 18 VIP suites, four change rooms, officials' rooms, concession, storage, and public washrooms. The field is built to FIFA 2-Star and World Rugby specifications, able to accommodate soccer, football, and rugby matches. Before expansion in 2019, the stadium had 1,600 permanent seats. Secondary field There is a second artificial tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens
The 2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens acted not only as a qualifier for the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, but also for seeding purposes for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens for five of the teams. The tournament was played on 5–6 April 2018 with pool stage matches played at So Kon Po Rec Ground with knock-out stage matches played at the Hong Kong Stadium in Hong Kong alongside the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens for men. Continental qualifying Teams will qualify for the World Series Qualifier tournament based on continental championships. The top teams from each continent that are not already core teams will qualify. Teams in bold also qualified for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Format 12 teams, split into three groups of four. The group winners, runners up and the two best third ranked teams will enter the knockout stage. The overall winner will gain a spot on the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens series. Pool Stage All times in Hong Kong Time ( UTC+08:00). The gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 19th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The World Rugby Sevens Series, Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000. Core teams Tour venues The official schedule for the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series was as follows: There were several significant changes to the schedule: * The New Zealand event moved from Wellington, which had hosted an event in every previous season of the series, to Hamilton. * The Australia and New Zealand events will swap places in the tournament order. * The schedule includes a break for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which will hold its Rugby sevens at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, sevens tournament on 14–15 April at Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast. * The Paris and London Sevens, which swapped places in the season order, will take place several weeks later than usual i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyla Nathan-Wong
Tyla King (; born 1 July 1994) is a New Zealand international rugby union player, professional rugby league player and Olympian. She played touch rugby, tag rugby and both sevens and fifteen-a-side rugby union as a teenager before in 2012 at the age of 18 she made her debut as a professional rugby sevens player when she was selected for the New Zealand sevens team. During her time with the team, which she captained on a number of occasions, they won the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2022–23. With them she won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and back-to-back gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. In May 2023, she was released from her contract with New Zealand Rugby to play rugby league for the Australian club St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership. This led to her being selected in October 2023 for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alev Kelter
Leyla Alev Kelter ( ; born March 21, 1991) is an American rugby sevens and rugby union player. She competed for the United States at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. She also represented the United States at the 2017 and 2021 Rugby World Cups. Rugby career She won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the United States women's national rugby sevens team. She also made the squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. Kelter was named in the Eagles squad to the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. In January 2022 the English rugby side Saracens Women announced that they had signed her for the rest of the 2021–22 Premier 15s season. She was named in the Eagles squad for the 2022 Pacific Four Series in New Zealand. She was selected in the Eagles squad for the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. She has also played for the Northern Loonies in Premier Rugby Sevens, and was part of the 2021 Inaugural Championship team and the 2023 Women's Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Sykes (rugby Union)
Emma Belle Gibson Sykes (October 8, 1885 – December 31, 1970) was a suffragist and civil rights activist. Biography Sykes née Gibson was born on October 8, 1885, in Christiana, Delaware. She attended the segregated Howard High School in Wilmington. After her graduation in 1903 she began her teaching career. In 1911 she married George J. Sykes, a dentist. The couple settled in at 208 East 10th in Wilmington. Around 1914 Sykes was involved with the formation of the Equal Suffrage Study Club in Wilmington along with other Howard High School teachers Alice Gertrude Baldwin, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar, Nellie B. Nicholson, Susie Estella Palmer Hamilton, Caroline B. Williams, and Blanche Williams Stubbs . At the same time, she was involved in the formation of the Wilmington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1920 the Delaware state legislature was considering ratification the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Mikhaltsova
Alena Dimitrievna Tiron (), née Alena Bogacheva (); born 8 December 1993) is a Russian female rugby union and rugby sevens player which represents Russia in World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and Rugby Europe Women's Sevens. Biography Rugby player career Alena came to rugby from track and field while having silver and bronze medals of 2012 Russia Championship in relay (400+300+200+100 and 800+400+200+100 respectively). She declined the invitation to rugby union from Yenisey-STM manager in 2011, but two years later, in March 2013 after graduating from sports school she moved to Krasnoyarsk and began training. On 1 May 2013 she became the player of Yenisey-STM after offer from a coach Maxim Zaltsman. She graduated from Siberian Federal University and won silver medal of III Russian Summer Youth Spartakiade. She made her debut in Russia sevens national team in the end of 2013 before 2013 Dubai Women's Sevens, but did not take part in the competition due to heel injury. In Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naya Tapper
Naya Elena Tapper (born August 3, 1994) is an American retired rugby sevens player. She was a co-captain of the United States women's rugby sevens team and competed in rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where Team USA took home the bronze medal. Tapper was the first U.S. woman to reach 100 tries and is the all-time leading try scorer for the USA women's team. Her chase down tackle that saved a try against Ireland at the 2021 Dubai Sevens was named the #1 Play on ESPN's SportCenter Top 10 plays. Early life and education Tapper was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, to Norman Tapper and Juanita Nater-Tapper, who are of Jamaican and Puerto Rican descent. She grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she attended West Mecklenburg High School and was an All-American athlete in track and field. Her older brother, Mark LeGree, played American football in the NFL. As a child, Tapper dreamt of following in his footstep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Tonegato
Emma Kate Tonegato (born 20 March 1995) is a professional Australian rugby league player. She has represented Australia in rugby sevens and rugby league. Born in Wollongong, New South Wales and playing for The Tribe at rugby union club level, she debuted for Australia in November 2013. As of December 2015, she had 12 caps. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Life Emma's father is Italian Stefano Tonegato who emigrated to Australia from Valdagno, specifically from a frazione named "San Quirico Valdagno". Emma started to play rugby when she was ten years old in a female junior team. Career Tonegato made her debut for the Australian Women's side in the opening leg of the 2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series in Dubai in November 2013. She has been a regular on the team since. She switched to rugby league and competed at the 2013 Women's Rugby League World Cup. She has the ability to play on the wing or in the centres. Tonegato was named in the tournament Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Blyde
Michaela Brake (née Blyde; born 29 December 1995) is a New Zealand professional rugby sevens player and a double Olympic gold medalist. She was the first female player to win back-to-back World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year titles, in 2017 and 2018. Blyde holds the record for the most tries by a New Zealand women sevens player in a single match (six against Sri Lanka at the 2022 Commonwealth Games) and also the record for most tries in a single fixture when she scored five tries against England in Langford in 2017. Blyde has won gold medals at the 2018 Sevens World Cup, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics and six Sevens titles. In January 2025, Blyde became the second woman to score 250 tries in the HSBC international sevens competition. She is currently the series' leading all-time women’s try scorer and the series' all-time women's second highest points scorer. Early life, education and family Blyde was born on 29 December 1995 in New Plymou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
