The 2020 Sydney Women's Sevens was the fifth tournament within the
2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the eighth edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby.
Only five of the originally scheduled eight tournaments were completed before the ...
and the fourth edition of the
Australian Women's Sevens
The Australian Women's Sevens, currently hosted in Perth, is an annual rugby sevens tournament and one of the stops on the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. Australia joined the women's circuit in 2017 for the fifth edition of the series.
Or ...
. It was held over the first weekend of February 2020 at
Bankwest Stadium
Western Sydney Stadium, currently known as CommBank Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in the suburb of Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It replaced the demolished Parramatta Stadium (1986) which in turn ...
in
Sydney
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and was run alongside
the men's tournament.
In the final,
New Zealand
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claimed their fourth tournament victory in a row as they defeated
Canada
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33–7.
Format
The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top team from each pool and the best second-placed team advanced to the semifinals to playoff for berths in the cup final and third place match. The other teams from each group were paired off for the lower classification matches.
Teams
There were twelve national women's teams in the tournament, the eleven core teams for the series plus Japan as the invited side.
Pool stage
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Placement matches
Eleventh place
Ninth place
Seventh place
Fifth place
Knockout stage
Tournament placings
Source
World Rugby
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See also
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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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2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the eighth edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby.
Only five of the originally scheduled eight tournaments were completed before the ...
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2020 Sydney Sevens
The 2020 Sydney Sevens was the fourth tournament in the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series and the eighteenth edition of the Australian Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 1–2 February 2019 at Western Sydney Stadium. won the tournament ...
References
External links
Tournament siteWorld Rugby info
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2020
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