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Rio 2016 – Women’s 7s Seedings, Pools & Fixtures

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Here are the seedings, Pools and fixtures for the Women’s Olympic 7s due to take place 6 – 8 August 2016

Women’s Olympic Games top four seedings

1st          Australia

2nd       New Zealand

3rd        Canada

4th         Great Britain

The pools for the Olympic Games women’s event are as follows:

Pool A Pool B Pool C
Australia New Zealand Canada
USA France Great Britain
Fiji Spain Brazil
Colombia Kenya Japan

Competition

Each team plays the three other nations in their pool over the first three match sessions with three points for a win, two for a draw and one for a loss.

The best eight teams will then proceed to the first round of knock-out matches, the quarter finals.

Those will be the three teams who top their pool, along with the three teams placed second in each pool and also the two best third-placed teams, based on competition points and then points difference.

Saturday 6 August 2016

Match 1    11:00                France 7s v Spain 7s

Match 2    11.30                New Zealand 7s v Kenya 7s

Match 3    12.00                Great Britain 7s v Brazil 7s

Match 4    12:30                Canada 7S v Japan 7s

Match 5    13:00                USA 7s v Fiji 7s

Match 6    13:30                Australia 7s v Colombia 7s

Match 7    16.00                France 7s v Kenya 7s

Match 8    16:30                New Zealand v Spain

Match 9    17:00                Great Britain 7s v Japan 7s

Match 10  17:30                Canada 7s v Brazil 7s

Match 11  18:00                USA v Colombia 7s

Match 12  18:30                Australia 7s v Fiji 7s

Sunday 7 August 2016

Match 13  11:00                Spain 7s v Kenya 7s

Match 14  11:30                New Zealand 7s v France 7s

Match 15  12:00                Brazil 7s v Japan 7s

Match 16 12:30                 Canada 7s v Great Britain 7s

Match 17 13:00                 Fiji 7s v Colombia 7s

Match 18 13:30                 Australia 7s v USA 7s

Match 19 16:00                 (9) 3rd Best 3rd v (12) 3rd Best 4th

Match 20  16.30 (10) Best 4th v(11) 2nd Best 4th

Match 21  17:00 1st Pool A v (8) 2nd Best 3rd

Match 22  17:30 2nd Pool C v 2nd Pool B

Match 23  18.00 1st Pool C v 2nd Pool A

Match 24  18:30 1st Pool B v (7) Best 3rd

Monday 8th August 2016

11th Place Play Off

Match 25  12:30 Loser game 19 v Loser Game 20

9th Place Play Off

Match 26  13:00 Winner game 19 v Winner game 20

5th Place Semi Final

Match 27  13:30 Loser game 21 v Loser Game 22

5th Place Semi Final

Match 28 14:00                 Loser game 23 v Loser game 24

Medal Semi Final

Match 29 14:30                 Winner game 21 v Winner game 22

Medal Semi Final

Match 30 15:00                 Winner game 23 v Winner game 24

7th Place Play Off

Match 31 17:30                 Loser game 27 v Loser game 28

5th Place Play Off

Match 32 18:00                 Winner game 27 v Winner game 28

Bronze Final

Match 33  18:30 Loser game 29 v Loser game 30

Olympic Games Women’s Sevens, Gold Final

Match 34  19.00 Winner game 29 v Winner game 30

 

 

Information courtesy of World Rugby