Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 26 July to 31 July 2021 at the Tokyo Stadium. 24 teams (12 each for men and women) competed in the tournament.[1][2][3][4][5] The dates were modified due to the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 games as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rugby sevens
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Rugby sevens pictogram
VenueTokyo Stadium
Dates26–31 July 2021
No. of events2
Competitors288 from 16 nations
← 2016
2024 →

Competition

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The men's and women's rugby sevens competitions took place at Tokyo Stadium, a 2019 Rugby World Cup host venue. The men's sessions took place July 26–28 with the women's sessions happening July 29–31, 2021.

Changes

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In a reverse to the 2016 schedule, the men's competition was played first over three days from July 27–29 with the women's competition taking place from July 30 through August 1 and culminating with the gold medal session.

There were two sessions on each competition day. The morning session kicked-off at 9 AM JST and ran until midday JST and the evening session began at 4:30 PM and finished at 7 PM. The medal matches took place in the evening sessions.[6]

Qualification summary

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Nation Men's Women's Athletes
  Argentina   12
  Australia     24
  Brazil   12
  Canada     24
  China   12
  Fiji     24
  France   12
  Great Britain     24
  Ireland   12
  Kenya     24
  Japan     24
  New Zealand     24
  ROC   12
  South Africa   12
  South Korea   12
  United States     24
Total: 16 NOCs 12 12 288

Men's

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Event Dates Location Quotas Qualifier
Host nation 1   Japan
2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series 30 November 2018 – 2 June 2019 Various 4   Fiji
  United States
  New Zealand
  South Africa
2019 South American Qualifying Tournament 29–30 June 2019   Santiago 1   Argentina
2019 RAN Sevens 6–7 July 2019   George Town 1   Canada
2019 European Qualifying Tournament 13–14 July 2019   Colomiers 1   Great Britain[note 1]
2019 Oceania Sevens Championship 7–9 November 2019   Suva 1   Australia
2019 Africa Men's Sevens 8–9 November 2019   Johannesburg 1   Kenya
2019 Asian Qualifying Tournament 23–24 November 2019   Incheon 1   South Korea
2020 Final Olympic Qualification Tournament 19–20 June 2021   Monaco 1   Ireland[note 2]
Total 12

Women's

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Event Dates Location Quotas Qualifier
Host nation 1   Japan
2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series 20 October 2018 – 16 June 2019 Various 4   New Zealand
  United States
  Canada
  Australia
2019 South American Qualifying Tournament 1–2 June 2019   Lima 1   Brazil
2019 RAN Women's Sevens 6–7 July 2019   George Town 0[note 3]
2019 European Qualifying Tournament 13–14 July 2019   Kazan 1   Great Britain[note 1]
2019 Africa Women's Sevens 12–13 October 2019   Jemmal 1   Kenya[note 4]
2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship 7–9 November 2019   Suva 1   Fiji
2019 Asian Qualifying Tournament 9–10 November 2019   Guangzhou 1   China
2020 Final Olympic Qualification Tournament 19–20 June 2021   Monaco 2[note 3]   France
  ROC
Total 12
  • Notes:
  1. ^ a b Great Britain earned qualification through England's placement as they were nominated as the country to earn qualification for Great Britain. However, they will be able to select players from Scotland and Wales.
  2. ^ The Irish rugby union teams represent the entire island of Ireland, and when representing the IRFU fly the four provinces flag of the IRFU as   Ireland. In the Olympic Games, however, they represent the Olympic Council of Ireland, and therefore play under the national flag of (the Republic of) Ireland. Northern Ireland players are, however, eligible to represent the team regardless of flag (according to the Good Friday Agreement, people who are born in Northern Ireland with Irish or British lineage can automatically obtain the nationality of (the Republic of) Ireland).
  3. ^ a b With both the United States and Canada advancing to the tournament through securing top four slots in the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, the spot for the RAN champions was re-allocated to the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament, which allowed two teams to qualify for the Olympic Games.
  4. ^ South Africa won the qualifying tournament but declined their spot due to a policy against accepting spots from continental tournaments. Kenya, as runners-up, qualified instead.[7]

Competition schedule

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Legend
P Pool Stage PM Placing Matches ¼ Quarter-Finals ½ Semi-Finals B Bronze Medal Match F Gold Medal Match
Schedule[8][9]
Date Jul 26 Jul 27 Jul 28 Jul 29 Jul 30 Jul 31
Event M E M E M E M E M E M E
Men's P PM ¼ PM ½ PM B F
Women's P PM ¼ PM ½ PM B F

Medal summary

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Medal table

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RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  New Zealand1102
2  Fiji1012
3  France0101
4  Argentina0011
Totals (4 entries)2226

Winners

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's tournament
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  Fiji   New Zealand   Argentina
Women's tournament
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  New Zealand   France   Fiji

Men's competition

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Group stage

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1   New Zealand 3 3 0 0 99 31 +68 9 Quarter-finals
2   Argentina 3 2 0 1 99 54 +45 7
3   Australia 3 1 0 2 73 48 +25 5
4   South Korea 3 0 0 3 10 148 −138 3
Source: Tokyo 2020 and World Rugby
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1   Fiji 3 3 0 0 85 40 +45 9 Quarter-finals
2   Great Britain 3 2 0 1 65 33 +32 7
3   Canada 3 1 0 2 50 64 −14 5
4   Japan (H) 3 0 0 3 31 94 −63 3
Source: Tokyo 2020 and World Rugby
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts

Group C

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1   South Africa 3 3 0 0 64 31 +33 9 Quarter-finals
2   United States 3 2 0 1 50 48 +2 7
3   Ireland 3 1 0 2 43 59 −16 5
4   Kenya 3 0 0 3 26 45 −19 3
Updated to match(es) played on 26 July 2021. Source: Tokyo 2020 and World Rugby
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.

Knockout stage

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Medal playoff

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
27 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
 
  New Zealand21
 
28 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Canada10
 
  New Zealand29
 
27 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Great Britain7
 
  Great Britain26
 
28 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  United States21
 
  New Zealand12
 
27 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Fiji27
 
  South Africa14
 
28 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Argentina19
 
  Argentina14
 
27 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Fiji26 Bronze medal match
 
  Fiji19
 
28 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Australia0
 
  Great Britain12
 
 
  Argentina17
 

Women's competition

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Group stage

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1   New Zealand 3 3 0 0 88 28 +60 9 Quarter-finals
2   Great Britain 3 2 0 1 66 38 +28 7
3   ROC 3 1 0 2 47 59 −12 5
4   Kenya 3 0 0 3 19 95 −76 3
Source: Tokyo 2020 and World Rugby
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1   France 3 3 0 0 83 10 +73 9 Quarter-finals
2   Fiji 3 2 0 1 72 29 +43 7
3   Canada 3 1 0 2 45 57 −12 5
4   Brazil 3 0 0 3 10 114 −104 3
Source: Tokyo 2020 and World Rugby
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.

Group C

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1   United States 3 3 0 0 59 33 +26 9 Quarter-finals
2   Australia 3 2 0 1 86 24 +62 7
3   China 3 1 0 2 53 54 −1 5
4   Japan (H) 3 0 0 3 7 94 −87 3
Source: Tokyo 2020 and World Rugby
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts

Knockout stage

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Medal playoff

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
30 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
 
  New Zealand36
 
31 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  ROC0
 
  New Zealand (a.e.t.)22
 
30 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Fiji17
 
  Fiji14
 
31 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Australia12
 
  New Zealand26
 
30 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  France12
 
  United States12
 
31 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  Great Britain21
 
  Great Britain19
 
30 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  France26 Bronze medal match
 
  France24
 
31 July – Tokyo Stadium
 
  China10
 
  Fiji21
 
 
  Great Britain12
 

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2020 Tokyo Olympics Rugby Sevens Schedule Finalised". Rugby World. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Rugby". Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Sevens Olympic pathway confirmed for 2020". Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Next Up for Sevens: Tokyo Olympics 2020". Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Dubai Rugby Sevens to kick-off competition for 2020 Tokyo Olympics". Arabian Business. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Schedule confirmed for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Rugby Sevens". USA Rugby. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Kenya qualify for Tokyo 2020 despite Rugby Africa Women's Sevens final defeat". www.insidethegames.biz. 13 October 2019. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Schedule – Rugby Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Rugby Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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