Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens 2007
Official Tournament Draw
Leading international women’s rugby sevens tournament marks 10th anniversary in 2007
[HONG KONG, February 26 2007]: The official tournament draw for the Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens 2007 (HKWRS) was held today at the Hong Kong Stadium, the venue for the Cup final for this year’s tournament. Twelve elite international women’s sevens teams will take part in the tenth anniversary Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens, to be held on Thursday and Friday March 29 and 30 2007 at So Kon Po Sports Ground across from the Hong Kong Stadium. The Cup final of the Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens 2007 will be played at the Hong Kong Stadium on Friday 30 March (kick-off at 6:42pm) as part of the Cathay Pacific/Credit Suisse Hong Kong Sevens 2007.
This year’s tournament marks another milestone in the continued growth of women’s rugby worldwide and the Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens 2007 has attracted another highly competitive mix of national teams and leading club sides from around the globe.
Defending champions,
New Zealand’s Aotearoa Maori, are returning with a goal of maintaining
New Zealand’s perfect record as tournament champions in each of the nine Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens played to date. Looking to unseat the Kiwis are last year’s Cup finalists
Australia and national representative teams from the Arabian Gulf,
Canada,
China,
Japan,
Kazakhstan,
Singapore,
Thailand and the
United States of America.
Papua New Guinea, on its debut at the Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens, and the hosts, the Hong Kong Women’s Sevens Team round out the competitors for 2007. The final squad for the Hong Kong Women’s Sevens Team will be announced at the women’s rugby day at King’s Park on Sunday March 25, 2007.
Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Women’s
Rugby Sevens 2007 Tournament Draw
The Cup final of the Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens will again be played at the Hong Kong Stadium on the opening night of the Cathay Pacific/Credit Suisse Hong Kong Sevens 2007, (the final will be held at 6:42pm on Friday 30 March 2007).
For today’s draw, the 12 participating teams were divided into pools of four. Four teams, (New Zealand, Australia, United States and China) were seeded based on their past results in the Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens and in other recent international and Asia regional women’s sevens competitions. Defending HKWRS Champions New Zealand are the tournament’s top seed in Pool A, followed by last year’s Cup finalists
Australia in Pool B and 2006 HKWRS Plate champions the
United States in Pool C. 2006 Asian Women’s Sevens Champions,
China, are the top seed in Pool D. Following the seeding of the top four teams, the remaining eight competing sides were drawn at random to complete the tournament pools.
Canada,
China and the
United States will benefit from some recent match experience after appearing in the first ever 2007 Women’s International Sevens Tournament held in
San Diego,
USA in February.
China beat
Canada before losing to the
USA and the
USA ‘B’ and
Canada ‘B’ teams to finish fourth overall in the five-team competition.
Canada ‘B’ upset the hosts
United States in the final by the score of 19 - 7. The results from San Diego point to the increasing parity in international women’s sevens and promise more excitement to come in the Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens 2007.
Now entering its tenth successful year, the Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens has grown into one of the top annual fixtures in the women’s rugby world. The tournament is fully supported by the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union, the Asian Rugby Football Union and the International Rugby Board. For the fourth consecutive year, the Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens is being title sponsored by Cable & Wireless.
For more information on women’s rugby please visit www.hkrugby.com.
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Released by Octagon Greater China on behalf of the Cable & Wireless 2007 Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Sevens. For further enquiries, please contact Sean Moore or Andy Yeung of Octagon on tel. 2534 5000; fax 2598 0280or by email at sean.moore@octagon.com or andy.yeung@octagon.com .
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