The 2017 Sydney Women's Sevens was the second tournament of the
2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.
[ It was the inaugural edition of the Australian Women's Sevens and part of the ]World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The World Rugby SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for Naming rights, sponsorship reasons, is a series of international rugby sevens tournaments for women's national teams run by World Rugby. The inaugural series was held in 2012–13 as the successo ...
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The tournament was played on 3–4 February 2017 at Allianz Stadium and Kippax Field in ]Sydney
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, and won by Canada 21–17 over the United States in the final.[
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Format
The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup brackets, together with the two best third-placed teams. The other teams from each group played off for the Challenge Trophy.
Teams
The participating teams were:[
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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
Challenge Trophy
5th place
Cup
Tournament placings
Source
World Rugby
(archived)
See also
* World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The World Rugby SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for Naming rights, sponsorship reasons, is a series of international rugby sevens tournaments for women's national teams run by World Rugby. The inaugural series was held in 2012–13 as the successo ...
* 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
* 2017 Sydney Sevens
References
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2017
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2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
2017 in Australian women's sport
2017 in women's rugby union
2017 in Australian rugby union