The 2015
ARFU Men's Sevens Championships is an Olympic qualification tournament for
rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held over six days in August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. The 2016 Olympics was the debut for rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics, though rugby union was last played at the 1924 games.
The usual laws of ...
which was held in
Hong Kong
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on 7–8 November 2015.
[Boost for Hong Kong rugby’s Olympics hopes as city to host Asian qualifiers for Rio]
/ref> It was originally planned to use the 2015 Asian Sevens Series for the qualification but as the series clashed with the 2015 Rugby World Cup
The IRB 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship. The tournament was hosted by England from 18 September to 31 October. Of the 20 countries competing in the World Cup in 2011, there was ...
hosted in England, it was decided to use one qualifying tournament (with a pre-qualifying round) for Asia.[
The Preliminary round was held in ]Chennai
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, India
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on 7–8 March 2015.
Pre-qualifying round
Pool stage
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Semifinals
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Third Place Match
Final
Final standing
Olympic qualifying round
Teams
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* (Automatic qualifier)
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* (Automatic qualifier) ''(withdrawn)''
Pool stage
All match times are HKT (UTC+8
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Pool A
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Pool B
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Playoffs
9th/10th Place Playoff
Plate Semifinals
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7th/8th Place Playoff
Plate Final
Cup Semifinal
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3rd/4th Place Playoff
Cup Final
Final standings
References
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Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
2015 rugby sevens competitions
International rugby union competitions hosted by Hong Kong
2015 in Hong Kong sport