2019 France Women's Sevens


The 2019 France Women's Sevens is the final tournament within the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the fourth edition of the France Women's Sevens. For the first time in the tournament's history, it is held over the weekend of 15–16 June 2019 at Parc des Sports Aguiléra in Biarritz. With New Zealand already qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the United States only needing to field a team to become eligible, the remaining two slots shall be determined over the weekend based upon overall series ranking.

Format

The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.

Teams

Eleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, Scotland:

Pool stage

All times in Central European Summer Time

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Knockout stage

Challenge Trophy

Matches

Semifinals
Eleventh place
Challenge Cup final

5th place

Matches

Semifinals
Seventh place
Fifth place

Cup

Matches

Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third Place
Final

Tournament placings

PlaceTeamPoints
20
18
16
414
512
610

PlaceTeamPoints
78
86
94
103
112
121

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Players

Scoring leaders

RankPlayerTries
1 Alena Saili6
1 Bianca Farella6
1 Charlotte Caslick6
1 Emma Tonegato6
1 Michaela Blyde6
1 Rhona Lloyd6

RankPlayerPoints
1 Tyla Nathan-Wong34
2 Alena Saili30
2 Bianca Farella30
2 Charlotte Caslick30
2 Emma Tonegato30
2 Michaela Blyde30
2 Rhona Lloyd30

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