2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament

2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament
Tournament details
Venue	AT&T Park
Dates	20 – 21 July 2018
No. of nations	16
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand
Runner-up	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Tries scored	199 (average 6.22 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Michaela Blyde (45)
Most tries	Michaela Blyde (9)

The women's tournament in the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at AT&T Park in San Francisco alongside the men's tournament in which the teams competed for the Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup.

Format

Unlike previous editions, the tournament was played for the first time in a knock-out only format.

Teams in the Championship Cup competed for the Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup trophy and bronze medals.
Losing teams in the Championship Cup Quarter-finals competed for 5th Place.
Losing teams in the Championship Cup Round of 16 (first round) competed for the Challenge Trophy and 13th Place.
All teams played four matches.

Teams

Africa	North America	South America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
Automatic qualification
	Canada United States			Spain	New Zealand
2016–17 World Series
				France Russia	Australia Fiji
Regional Qualifiers
South Africa	Mexico	Brazil	China Japan	England Ireland	Papua New Guinea

Squads

Draw

The sixteen teams were seeded as follows:^[1]

The ten core teams of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series were seeded according to their accumulated scores from the former series alongside the 2017 Dubai Women's Sevens and 2018 Sydney Women's Sevens.
Through becoming a 2017–18 core team, Japan was seeded 11th.
The remaining five were determined through the teams' ranking performance in the 2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens.

2017–18 Core Team Seeding
Pos	Event Team	2016–17	Dubai	Sydney	Points total
1	New Zealand	116	12	18	146
2	Australia	100	20	20	140
3	Canada	98	14	16	128
4	Russia	66	16	14	96
5	United States	62	18	6	86
6	France	60	10	12	82
7	Fiji	66	2	3	71
8	England	37	6	4	47
9	Ireland	34	4	8	46
10	Spain	19	8	10	37
11	Japan	New core team

2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens seeding
Pos	Team	Round	Record
12	China	Winner	6–0
13	South Africa	Final	4–2
14	Brazil	Quarterfinal	2–2
15	Papua New Guinea	Quarterfinal	1–3
16	Mexico	Pool stage	0–3

Match officials

World Rugby announced a panel of nine match officials for the women's tournament.^[2]

Alhambra Nievas (Spain)
Joy Neville (Ireland)
Sara Cox (England)
Adam Jones (Wales)
Ben Crouse (South Africa)

Sakurako Kawasaki (Japan)
Hollie Davidson (Scotland)
Rebecca Mahoney (New Zealand)
Beatrice Benvenuti (Italy)

Tournament

13th Place

Semi-finals		13th Place Final

21 July 2018 – 11:28 – AT&T Park

Mexico (16)	0
		21 July 2018 – 18:02 – AT&T Park
South Africa (13)	34
		South Africa (13)	0
21 July 2018 – 11:50 – AT&T Park
		Brazil (14)	22
Brazil (14)	15

Papua New Guinea (15)	12
		15th Place

		21 July 2018 – 17:40 – AT&T Park

		Mexico (16)	0

		Papua New Guinea (15)	32

Matches

Semi-finals

21 July 2018	(16) Mexico	0–34	South Africa (13)	AT&T Park
11:28				Referee: Beatrice Benvenuti (Italy)

21 July 2018	(14) Brazil	15–12	Papua New Guinea (15)	AT&T Park
11:50				Referee: Sakurako Kawasaki (Japan)

15th Place

21 July 2018	(16) Mexico	0–32	Papua New Guinea (15)	AT&T Park
17:40				Referee: Ben Crouse (South Africa)

13th Place Final

21 July 2018	(13) South Africa	0–22	Brazil (14)	AT&T Park
18:02				Referee: Sakurako Kawasaki (Japan)

Challenge Trophy

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Challenge Trophy Final

20 July 2018 – 16:02 – AT&T Park

England (8)	59
		21 July 2018 – 12:12 – AT&T Park
Mexico (16)	0
		England (8)	38
20 July 2018 – 17:08 – AT&T Park
		China (12)	0
China (12)	29
				21 July 2018 – 18:46 – AT&T Park
South Africa (13)	5
				England (8)	31
20 July 2018 – 16:46 – AT&T Park
				Japan (11)	5
Japan (11)	19
		21 July 2018 – 12:34 – AT&T Park
Brazil (14)	14
		Japan (11)	15
20 July 2018 – 16:24 – AT&T Park
		Fiji (7)	14	11th Place
Fiji (7)	43
				21 July 2018 – 18:24 – AT&T Park
Papua New Guinea (15)	0
				China (12)	0

				Fiji (7)	38

Matches

Quarter-finals

20 July 2018	(8) England	59–0	Mexico (16)	AT&T Park
16:02				Referee: Rebecca Mahoney (New Zealand)

20 July 2018	(7) Fiji	43–0	Papua New Guinea (15)	AT&T Park
16:24				Referee: Ben Crouse (South Africa)

20 July 2018	(11) Japan	19–14	Brazil (14)	AT&T Park
16:46				Referee: Beatrice Benvenuti (Italy)

20 July 2018	(12) China	29–5	South Africa (13)	AT&T Park
17:08				Referee: Sakurako Kawasaki (Japan)

Semi-finals

21 July 2018	(8) England	38–0	China (12)	AT&T Park
12:12				Referee: Rebecca Mahoney (New Zealand)

21 July 2018	(11) Japan	15–14	Fiji (7)	AT&T Park
12:34				Referee: Ben Crouse (South Africa)

11th Place

21 July 2018	(12) China	0–38	Fiji (7)	AT&T Park
18:24				Referee: Beatrice Benvenuti (Italy)

Challenge Trophy Final

21 July 2018	(8) England	31–5	Japan (11)	AT&T Park
18:46				Referee: Adam Jones (Wales)

5th Place

Semi-finals		5th Place Final

21 July 2018 – 12:56 – AT&T Park

Ireland (9)	20
		21 July 2018 – 19:30 – AT&T Park
Russia (4)	15
		Ireland (9)	7
21 July 2018 – 13:18 – AT&T Park
		Spain (10)	12
Canada (3)	14

Spain (10)	26
		7th Place

		21 July 2018 – 19:08 – AT&T Park

		Russia (4)	10

		Canada (3)	22

Matches

Semi-finals

21 July 2018	(9) Ireland	20–15	Russia (4)	AT&T Park
12:56				Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)

21 July 2018	(3) Canada	14–26	Spain (10)	AT&T Park
13:18				Referee: Adam Jones (Wales)

7th Place

21 July 2018	(4) Russia	10-22	Canada (3)	AT&T Park
19:08				Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)

5th Place Final

21 July 2018	(9) Ireland	7–12	Spain (10)	AT&T Park
19:30				Referee: Rebecca Mahoney (New Zealand)

Championship Cup

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Championship Cup Final

20 July 2018 – 12:12 – AT&T Park

England (8)

20 July 2018 – 17:30 – AT&T Park

Ireland (9)

Ireland (9)

20 July 2018 – 11:50 – AT&T Park

New Zealand (1)

21 July 2018 – 13:40 – AT&T Park

Mexico (16)

New Zealand (1)

20 July 2018 – 12:34 – AT&T Park

United States (5)

United States (5)

20 July 2018 – 18:36 – AT&T Park

China (12)

United States (5)

20 July 2018 – 10:44 – AT&T Park

Russia (4)

Russia (4)

21 July 2018 – 20:14 – AT&T Park

South Africa (13)

New Zealand (1)

20 July 2018 – 10:22 – AT&T Park

France (6)

France (6)

20 July 2018 – 18:14 – AT&T Park

Japan (11)

France (6)

20 July 2018 – 11:06 – AT&T Park

Canada (3)

Canada (3)

21 July 2018 – 14:02 – AT&T Park

Brazil (14)

France (6)

20 July 2018 – 10:00 – AT&T Park

Australia (2)

Bronze Medal Match

Fiji (7)

20 July 2018 – 17:52 – AT&T Park

21 July 2018 – 19:52 – AT&T Park

Spain (10)

Spain (10)

United States (5)

20 July 2018 – 11:28 – AT&T Park

Australia (2)

Papua New Guinea (15)

Matches

Round of 16

20 July 2018	(7) Fiji	12–19	Spain (10)	AT&T Park
10:00	Try: Cumu 4'c Ravisa 12'm Con: Riwai (1/2) 4'		Try: Plà 2'c Bravo 6'm Martínez 8'c Con: García (2/3) 3', 8' Cards: Erbina 14'	Referee: Joy Neville (Ireland)

20 July 2018	(6) France	33–7	Japan (11)	AT&T Park
10:22	Try: Izar 1'c Amédée 4'm Guerin 6'c Ciofani 11'c Bertrand 14'c Con: Amédée (2/2) 1', 6', 11' Drouin (1/1) 14' Izar (0/1)		Try: Otake 7'c Con: Okuroda (1/1) 7'	Referee: Ben Crouse (South Africa)

20 July 2018	(4) Russia	24–14	South Africa (13)	AT&T Park
10:44	Try: Mikhaltsova 3'm Shestakova 5'c Lushina 7'c Perestiak 14'm Con: Lushina (2/4) 5', 7'		Try: Jordaan 9'c Latsha 12'c Con: Jordaan (2/2) 9', 12' Cards: Roos 4'	Referee: Rebecca Mahoney (New Zealand)

20 July 2018	(3) Canada	43–19	Brazil (14)	AT&T Park
11:06	Try: Benn 0'c Moleschi 2'c Greenshields 6'm Kaljuvee 7'm Farella 9'c Buisa 13'c Watcham-Roy 14'c Con: Landry (3/5) 0', 3', 9' Nicholas (1/2) 13'		Try: Silva 4'c, 8'c Araújo 12'm Con: Cerullo (1/1) 5', 8' Kochhann (0/1)	Referee: Adam Jones (Wales)

20 July 2018	(2) Australia	34–5	Papua New Guinea (15)	AT&T Park
11:28	Try: Pelite 1'm Cherry 3'm Tonegato 4'm Caslick (2) 9'c, 11'c Green 13'c Con: Cherry (2/2) 9', 12' Williams (0/3) McGregor (0/1)		Try: Garesa 7'm Con: Lavai (0/1)	Referee: Sakurako Kawasaki (Japan)

20 July 2018	(1) New Zealand	57–0	Mexico (16)	AT&T Park
12:12	Try: Woodman (2) 1'm, 7'c Blyde (2) 4'm, 7'c Goss (3) 5'c, 12'c, 13'm Brazier 9'c Waaka 11'c Con: Nathan-Wong (6/8) 6', 7', 8', 9', 11', 12' Willison (0/1)			Referee: Beatrice Benvenuti (Italy)

20 July 2018	(8) England	14–19	Ireland (9)	AT&T Park
12:12	Try: Scarratt 6'c Matthews 13'c Con: Aitchison (2/2) 6', 13'		Try: Baxter 2'm Murphy-Crowe (2) 8'c, 10'c Con: Mulhall (2/3) 8', 11'	Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)

20 July 2018	(5) United States	38–7	China (12)	AT&T Park
12:34	Try: Tapper 0'c Thomas 4'c Doyle 5'm Zackary 8'm Emba (2) 10'c, 13'c Con: Heavirland (4/6) 0', 5', 10', 14'		Try: Chen 2'c Con: Yu X 3'	Referee: Sara Cox (England)

Quarter-finals

20 July 2018	(9) Ireland	0–45	New Zealand (1)	AT&T Park
17:30				Referee: Alhambra Nievas (Spain)

20 July 2018	(10) Spain	0–34	Australia (2)	AT&T Park
17:52				Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)

20 July 2018	(6) France	24–19	Canada (3)	AT&T Park
18:14	Try: Mayans 2'c Guérin (2) 5'm, 10'c Drouin 14'm Con: Amédée (1/2) 2' Izar (1/2) 10'		Try: Landry 7'c Williams 8'c Farella 12'm Con: Landry (2/3) 7', 9'	Referee: Sara Cox (England)

20 July 2018	(5) United States	33–17	Russia (4)	AT&T Park
18:36	Try: Tapper (2) 2'c, 4'c Gustaitis 6'c Maher 13'c Emba 14'c Con: Heavirland (4/5) 2', 4', 6', 13' Cards: Heavirland 7'		Try: Khamidova 2'm Mikhaltsova 10'c Noritsina 12'c Con: Lushina (1/3) 10'	Referee: Joy Neville (Ireland)

Semi-finals

21 July 2018	(1) New Zealand	26–21	United States (5)	AT&T Park
13:40				Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)

21 July 2018	(6) France	19–12	Australia (2)	AT&T Park
14:02				Referee: Rebecca Mahoney (New Zealand)

Bronze Medal Match

21 July 2018	(5) United States	14–24	Australia (2)	AT&T Park
19:52				Referee: Alhambra Nievas (Spain)

Championship Cup Final

21 July 2018	(1) New Zealand	29–0	France (6)	AT&T Park
20:14	Try: Blyde (3) 2'm, 13'c, 14'c Woodman 6'm Nathan-Wong 7'm Con: Nathan-Wong (2/5) 13', 14'			Referee: Sara Cox (England)

^[3]

2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens Women's winners
New Zealand 2nd title

Tournament placings

Place	Team
	New Zealand
	France
	Australia
4	United States
5	Spain
6	Ireland
7	Canada
8	Russia

Place	Team
9	England
10	Japan
11	Fiji
12	China
13	Brazil
14	South Africa
15	Papua New Guinea
16	Mexico

Player scoring

Tries scored
Rank	Player	Tries
1	Michaela Blyde	9
2	Naya Tapper	7
3	Evania Pelite	6
3	Portia Woodman	6
5	Raijieli Daveua	5
	Ellia Green
	Bianca Silva

Points scored
Rank	Player	Points
1	Michaela Blyde	47
2	Tyla Nathan-Wong	37
3	Holly Aitchison	36
4	Naya Tapper	35
5	Ghislaine Landry	31

Source: World Rugby

References

^ "Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 qualification explained". World Rugby. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ "Match officials announced for landmark Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018" (Press release). World Rugby. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
^ "Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 - Tournament schedules". rwcsevens.com. World Rugby. Archived from the original on 1 May 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2017.

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