Girls’s rugby sevens at Paris 2024 kicks off on July twenty eighth and takes place over three days at Stade de France in Saint-Denis.
Pool A is made up of defending champions New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, and China. Pool B will function Australia, Nice Britain, Eire, and South Africa. Hosts France, Brazil, Japan, and the USA full Pool C.
Commencing the day after the completion of the lads’s competitors, the motion begins with Eire dealing with Nice Britain (15:30 native time).
The opening day of the ladies’s occasion will function an extra 11 fixtures, with New Zealand and Canada closing proceedings on Sunday night (21:30 native time).
Nice Britain will open the motion as soon as once more on the second day as they face South Africa within the first match (14:00 native time).
Strain will ramp up all through the day because the quarter-finals are performed within the night in preparation for a blockbuster last day of sevens on July thirtieth. The total schedule may be discovered beneath.
Many gamers on the ladies’s circuit play each sevens and 15s, and it’s seemingly that a number of the stars of the Olympics will function at WXV later within the yr within the run-up to Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025.
Canada, the hosts for WXV 1 later this yr, had sevens stars Olivia Apps and Fancy Bermudez of their ranks at the latest Pacific 4 Sequence, which they gained.
The USA’s Alev Kelter, who turned the primary American girl to achieve 1,000 factors in SVNS, will signify her nation at a second Olympic Video games, along with two Rugby World Cups in 15s. The versatile again has not too long ago signed for Premiership Girls’s Rugby facet Loughborough Lightning, who she’s going to be a part of from Saracens.
France sevens boast the dual-discipline threats of Joanna Grisez and Caroline Drouin at their house Video games, each of whom have featured at 15s Rugby World Cups.
South Africa will host WXV 2 for a second yr. The house facet offered memorable moments within the inaugural competitors, specifically, the thumping deal with made by Libbie Janse van Rensburg on Chloe Rollie which did the rounds on social media.
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Playmaker Janse van Rensburg is representing South Africa in sevens at Paris 2024 and can seemingly face acquainted faces from 15s similar to Group GB’s Lisa Thomson, Ellie Kildunne, and Megan Jones on the Video games.
WVX 3 will as soon as once more be hosted in Dubai, a well-liked cease on the HSBC SVNS circuit.
Final yr’s WXV 3 winners Eire will compete in WXV 1 this yr after a powerful Six Nations marketing campaign, and their Paris 2024 sevens squad options shiny sparks Beibhinn Parsons and Eve Higgins who’re well-versed in each 15s and sevens.
Fiji’s Sesenieli Donu, who suffered a extreme knee harm at Rugby World Cup 2022, will compete at her second Olympic Video games following a prolonged rehabilitation course of.
Teammates Ilisapeci Delaiwau, Lavena Cavuru, Raijieli Daveua, Kolora Lomani, Alowesi Nakoci, Ana Maria Naimasi, and Ilisapeci Delaiwau had been additionally amongst those that introduced sevens aptitude to the 15s RWC in 2022 and can function on the 2024 Olympic Video games. Fiji will compete in WXV 3 for a second yr, and have certified for England 2025.
New Zealand Girls’s co-captain Sarah Hirini stated forward of the Video games: “I’m actually completely satisfied to be again and at one other pinnacle occasion. It’s so particular and it feels similar to the primary time with the vitality and pleasure across the Olympic Village and inside our workforce.
“We’re going to try to do one thing that’s by no means been accomplished earlier than, attempting to create historical past whereas having fun with the second. I’m actually proud that we’ll be taking part in in entrance of big crowds, that’s an important factor that we will obtain as a sport for the sevens. I used to be right here for the lads’s World Cup final yr and being in that packed stadium goes to be electrical.”
USA Girls’s co-captain Naya Taper stated: “Having so many followers within the stadium is each thrilling and someway scary, at the least for me. Tokyo 2020 was nice however we didn’t have the followers within the stands cheering or booing for us so I’m preparing for that stimulation. We now have been getting ready and are undoubtedly trying ahead to start.
“We’re very pleased with what we have now been capable of obtain final season however we all know the previous is the previous and the current is the current. We’re coming right here with the educational and the boldness we gained from final season, bringing it to this event.
“Allowing for we gained’t be the one one and no one will give us a simple sport however we’re popping out right here to make our family and friends proud and get on that podium with a gold medal, not a silver, not a bronze, however a gold medal.
“It’s actually inspiring to be taking part in on such a giant platform. It pertains to our philosophy that ladies generally is a supply of inspiration for anybody watching, younger boys and younger ladies, followers and new publics, being anyone they wish to comply with behind and attempt to be like and attempting to be a job mannequin on and off the sector.”
Paris 2024 ladies’s rugby sevens schedule – all occasions CEST
Sunday twenty eighth July
15:30 Eire vs Nice Britain
16:00 Australia vs South Africa
16:30 USA vs Japan
17:00 France vs Brazil
17:30 Fiji vs Canada
18:00 New Zealand vs China
19:00 Eire vs South Africa
19:30 Australia vs Nice Britain
20:00 USA vs Brazil
20:30 France vs Japan
21:00 Fiji vs China
21:30 New Zealand vs Canada
Monday twenty ninth July
14:00 Nice Britain vs South Africa
14:30 Australia vs Eire
15:00 Japan vs Brazil
15:30 France vs USA
16:00 Canada vs China
16:30 New Zealand vs Fiji
20:00 Putting 9-12
20:30 Putting 9-12
21:00 Quarter-Ultimate
21:30 Quarter-Ultimate
22:00 Quarter-Ultimate
22:30 Quarter-Ultimate
Tuesday thirtieth July
14:30 Fifth Place Semi-Ultimate
15:00 Fifth Place Semi-Ultimate
15:30 Medal Semi-Ultimate
16:00 Medal Semi-Ultimate
16:30 eleventh Place Play-Off
17:00 Ninth Place Play-Off
18:00 Seventh Place Play-Off
18:30 Fifth Place Play-Off
19:00 Bronze Ultimate
19:45 Gold Ultimate
