The swimming pools for the Olympic rugby sevens competitions in Paris 2024 have been confirmed following the World Rugby Sevens Repechage this weekend in Monaco.
Group GB Mens didn’t qualify for the boys’s rugby sevens on the Paris Olympics after dropping 14-5 to South Africa within the last.
Rugby sevens will kick off the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 on 24 July at Stade de France, two days earlier than the Opening Ceremony. Twelve groups will now compete in three swimming pools of 4 groups in each the boys’s and girls’s competitions.
The 12 males’s and 12 ladies’s groups have been allotted to 3 swimming pools of 4 groups based mostly on their rankings because of performances during the last two years of the HSBC SVNS Sequence, Challenger Sequence, and different World Rugby-sanctioned tournaments.
All six World Rugby areas are represented among the many 24 groups who secured their spots in Paris through the HSBC SVNS Sequence and regional qualification competitions.
Within the males’s competitors hosts France and Antoine Dupont will begin in Pool C with two-time Olympic champions Fiji, USA, and debutants Uruguay. They’ll purpose to duplicate their title-winning efficiency in Madrid. SVNS league winners Argentina will face powerful competitors in Pool B towards Australia, Samoa, and Kenya. Pool A sees high seed New Zealand grouped with Eire, Japan, and South Africa.
Within the ladies’s competitors the battle will even be fierce with three very aggressive swimming pools. Reigning Olympic champions and SVNS League Winners New Zealand will face Fiji, Canada, and freshly certified China in Pool A.
Pool B consists of Rio 2016 Olympic champions Australia going through Eire, Nice Britain, and debutants South Africa. Hosts France in Pool C will look to enhance on their silver medal at Tokyo 2020 with matches towards USA, Japan, and Brazil.
All of the motion will happen at Stade de France, which was the venue for the opening match and last of Rugby World Cup 2023. The lads’s competitors will happen from 24-27 July, with the ladies’s event following on 28-30 July. The lads’s gold medal match on 27 July will see the primary workforce sport gold medal of the Video games awarded.
Paris 2024 Sports activities Govt Director Aurélie Merle added: “On behalf of Paris 2024, I wish to warmly congratulate the 2 last groups which have certified for the Olympic Rugby Sevens tournaments. Every event shall be fiercely aggressive, with difficult swimming pools promising a spectacular show.
“Rugby Sevens can have the honour of kicking off the Olympic Video games in Paris, with the competitors starting two days earlier than the Opening Ceremony. France is a rustic obsessed with rugby and we’ll welcome all groups to a refurbished and packed Stade de France of 69,000 seats, the place the environment shall be electrical. With just some weeks to go, all of the circumstances are in place for groups to carry out at their finest on the pitch whereas having an unforgettable expertise.”
