The 2016 USA Sevens was the third tournament within the
2015–16 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2015–16 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the fourth edition of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (formerly the IRB Women's Sevens World Series), an annual series of tournaments organised by World Rugby for women's national teams i ...
. It was held over the weekend of 8–9 April 2016 at
Fifth Third Bank Stadium
Fifth Third Stadium, known as Kennesaw State University Stadium until 2013, is a stadium near Kennesaw, Georgia, that is primarily used as the home for the Kennesaw State Owls football team as well as the KSU women's soccer and women's lacros ...
in the
Atlanta
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suburb of
Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under i ...
. Australia won the tournament, defeating New Zealand by 24–19 in the final.
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Format
The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played everyone in their pool one time. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets while the top 2 third place teams will also compete in the Cup/Plate. The rest of the teams from each group went to the Bowl brackets.
Teams
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Pool Stage
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Knockout stage
Bowl
Plate
Cup
References
External links
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:USA Women's Sevens
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
2015–16 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
2016 in women's rugby union
2016 in American rugby union
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
2016 rugby sevens competitions
2016 in sports in Georgia (U.S. state)