The 2021 Canada Women's Sevens was held as two "Fast Four" invitational
rugby sevens
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events on consecutive weekends in late September that year. The first was hosted at
BC Place
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The venue is currently ...
in
Vancouver
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and the second at
Commonwealth Stadium
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in
Edmonton
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. These tournaments, which featured four national women's teams, were played as the sixth season of the
Canada Women's Sevens but were not part of the cancelled
2021 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The 2021 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was a planned series of rugby sevens tournaments for national women's rugby sevens teams that was cancelled due to impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of an official season of the Women's Sevens Se ...
. All official tournaments on the women's world circuit for the season were cancelled,
[ including the Canada Women's Sevens tournament for twelve teams originally planned for Langford during the spring,][ due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
]
Format
All national women's teams played four matches at each Fast Four event. Three matches within a round-robin format were followed by a final playoff match. The top two teams met in the gold medal match, with the bottom two playing for bronze. The women's final matches were played directly before the men's final to complete the second day of competition at the 2021 Canada Sevens tournaments.
Teams
The national women's teams competing at the Vancouver and Edmonton invitational Fast Four tournaments were:[
]
Vancouver
The first tournament was hosted at BC Place
BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek, it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), a Crown corporation of the province.
The venue is currently ...
in Vancouver
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on 18–19 September 2021. Great Britain won the Fast Four event, defeating United States by 34–12 in the final.
All times in Pacific Daylight Time
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( UTC−07:00).
Key: Top seeded semifinalists are highlighted in green
Round robin
Playoffs
Tournament placings
Edmonton
The second tournament was hosted at Commonwealth Stadium
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in Edmonton
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on 25–26 September. Great Britain won the Fast Four event, defeating United States by 22–5 in the final.
All times in Mountain Daylight Time
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( UTC−06:00).
Key: Top seeded semifinalists are highlighted in green
Round robin
Playoffs
Tournament placings
See also
* 2021 Canada Sevens (for men)
References
External links
Tournament pageWorld Rugby page for the Vancouver Fast Four eventWorld Rugby page for the Edmonton Fast Four event
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2021
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