2001 Cardiff Sevens

IRB Sevens II Wales 2–3 June 2001 NZL AUS FIJ WAL ENG POR 41 2002 The 2001 Cardiff Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament that took place at the Rodney Parade with the finals being held at the Millennium Stadium. It took place between 2–3 June 2001 and was the first edition of the Cardiff Sevens and the final round of the 2000–01 World Sevens Series. Heading into the tournament, New Zealand held an eight-point lead over Australia with a semi-final placing in the cup being enough to give New Zealand the title. After both teams qualified through to the cup knockout stage with them only conceding ten points between the two, they would meet in the cup final with New Zealand taking out not only the Cardiff Sevens but the World Series with a 31–5 win over Australia. In the minor placings, Fiji took out the plate final defeating Wales while England won the bowl over Portugal. Teams 16 teams participated in the final round of the World Sevens Series:June 2020 28em ARG AUS CAN ENG FIJ FRA GEO 1990 NZL POR RUS SAM SCO ESP RSA WAL WIN Format The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played the other teams in their pool once, with 3 points awarded for a win, 2 points for a draw, and 1 point for a loss (no points awarded for a forfeit). The pool stage was played on the first day of the tournament. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each pool went on to the Bowl bracket.IRB Sevens - Format & Regulation - 16-team tournament irbsevens.com http://www.irbsevens.com/seriesinfo/rules.html usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20130520160501/http://irbsevens.com/seriesinfo/rules.html 20 May 2013 Summary The opening day of the 2001 Cardiff Sevens saw the leading two nations (Australia and New Zealand) each finished top of their pool group while only conceding five points in their pool stage. The Northern hemisphere teams though had a day that they rather forget with only Wales qualifying through to the quarter-finals of the major European teams with France and Scotland not recording a single win while England only recorded 19-all draw with Spain before losing to the qualifiers of Pool C in Fiji in Georgia. Samoa finished ahead of South Africa in Pool D with the Samoans getting a 28–10 win.http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/story/36906.html Kiwis one win from sevens crown Newport 2 June 2001 5 June 2020 ESPN Scrum In the cup quarter-finals, New Zealand would take the World Sevens title defeating Wales 29–0 to claim their second World Sevens title. They would also go on to win the Cup final over Australia with tries from Chris Masoe and Damian Karauna securing a 31–5 victory. In the plate-final, Fiji took home the plate defeating host nation Wales who came back from 19–0 down against Georgia in the plate semi-final to win 26–19. England got the remaining two points as they home took the bowl final over Portugal.http://www.irbsevens.org/htmlfiles/150.htm New Zealand Win Both Titles International Rugby Board 3 June 2001 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20011121124751/http://www.irbsevens.org/htmlfiles/150.htm 21 November 2001 Pool stage The pool stage was played on the first day of the tournament. The 16 teams were separated into four pools of four teams and teams in the same pool played each other once. The top two teams in each pool advanced to the Cup quarterfinals to compete for the 2001 Cardiff Sevens title.http://www.irbsevens.org/htmlfiles/130.htm Pools for Final Tournament International Rugby Board dead https://web.archive.org/web/20011121073210/http://www.irbsevens.org/htmlfiles/130.htm 21 November 2001 Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Cup quarterfinalsTeams that advanced to the Bowl quarterfinals Pool A main WDL Q show_positions point 3 2 1 NZL NZL ARG ARG POR POR WIN WIN 3 0 0 114 5 2 0 1 46 41 1 0 2 29 65 0 0 3 24 102 #ccffcc A A complete 2 June 2001 13:00 NZL 24-0 POR Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 20011 13:20 ARG 19–5 WIN Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 15:30 NZL 59–0 WIN Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 15:50 ARG 22–5 POR Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 17:20 POR 24–19 WIN Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 18:40 NZL 31–5 ARG Rodney Parade, Newport Source:https://www.world.rugby/sevens-series/stage/1392/fixtures Cardiff Results World Rugby 5 June 2001 Pool B main WDL Q show_positions point 3 2 1 AUS AUS WAL WAL CAN CAN SCO SCO 3 0 0 119 5 2 0 1 50 57 1 0 2 26 69 0 0 3 26 90 #ccffcc A A complete 2 June 2001 11:40 CAN 14-12 SCO Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 20011 12:00 AUS 31–5 WAL Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 14:30 AUS 50–0 SCO Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 16:10 WAL 19–12 CAN Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 18:00 AUS 38–0 CAN Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 19:00 WAL 26–14 SCO Rodney Parade, Newport Source: Pool C main WDL Q show_positions point 3 2 1 FIJ FIJ GEO GEO 1990 ENG ENG ESP ESP 3 0 0 93 20 2 0 1 34 57 0 1 2 46 55 0 1 2 36 77 #ccffcc A A complete 2 June 2001 12:20 FIJ 33-0 GEO 1990 Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 12:40 ENG 19–19 ESP Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 14:50 FIJ 41–5 ESP Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 15:10 GEO 1990 17–12 ENG Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 17:00 GEO 1990 17–12 ESP Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 18:20 FIJ 19–15 ENG Rodney Parade, Newport Source: Pool D main WDL Q show_positions point 3 2 1 SAM SAM RSA RSA RUS RUS FRA FRA 3 0 0 101 17 2 0 1 72 42 1 0 2 31 69 0 0 3 14 90 #ccffcc A A complete 2 June 2001 11:00 SAM 40-0 FRA Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 11:20 RSA 29–7 RUS Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 13:50 SAM 33–7 RUS Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 14:10 RSA 33–7 FRA Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 16:40 RUS 17–7 FRA Rodney Parade, Newport 2 June 2001 17:40 SAM 28–10 RSA Rodney Parade, Newport Source: Knockout stage Bowl 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium POR 19 SCO 7 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium RUS 21 ESP 26 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium CAN 38 WIN 10 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium ENG 17 FRA 12 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium POR 21 ESP 19 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium CAN 14 ENG 29 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium POR 26 ENG 35 200 50 Source: Plate 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium WAL 26 GEO 1990 19 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium ARG 21 FIJ 28 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium WAL 14 FIJ 47 200 50 Source: Cup 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium NZL 29 WAL 0 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium SAM 38 GEO 1990 17 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium AUS 49 ARG 14 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium FIJ 7 RSA 28 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium NZL 24 SAM 7 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium AUS 21 RSA 12 3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium NZL 31 AUS 5 200 50 Source: Tournament placings 20em PlaceTeam Points NZL 20 AUS 16 SAM 12 RSA 12 5 FIJ 8 6 WAL 6 7 ARG 4 GEO 1990 4 PlaceTeam Points 9 ENG 210 POR 0 11 CAN 0 ESP 0 13 FRA 0 RUS 0 SCO 0 WIN 0 Source: World Rugby Series standings At the completion of Round 9: Pos. Team Event  RSADurban DubaiDubai NZLWellington HKGHong Kong CHNShanghai MASKuala Lumpur JPNTokyo ENGLondon WALCardiff Pointstotal1 NZL2020 4 30 12 16 2020 20 1622 AUS 12 12 20 18 2020 16 16 16 1503 FIJ 16 16 16 24 8 12 12 12 8 1244 SAM 6 12 8 18 4 8 12 12 12 925 RSA 8 8 2 8 16 12 8 8 12 826 ARG 12 6 6 8 4 4 2 4 4 50 7 ENG 0 4 0 8 6 0 6 6 2 328 CAN 4 0 4 8 2 0 4 4 0 269 WAL 0 0 0 3 0 4 4 2 6 1910 USA – – 12 4 – – 0 – – 1611 KOR – – – 0 12 2 0 – – 1412 FRA 4 – – 2 – 6 0 0 0 1213 COK – – 12 – – – – – – 1214 ZIM 0 4 – – – – – – – 415 POR 2 – – 2 – – – 0 0 416 GEO 0 0 – – – – – 0 4 417 IRE – 2 – – – – – – – 218 HKG – 0 – 1 0 – 0 – – 119 JPN – – 0 0 0 0 0 – – 020 TPE – – – 0 0 0 0 – – 0 MAS – – – 0 0 0 0 – – 022 CHN – – 0 0 0 – – – – 0 RUS – – – 0 – – – 0 0 024 GCC Arabian Gulf – 0 – 0 – – – – – 0 KEN 0 0 – – – – – – – 0 MAR 0 0 – – – – – – – 0 SCO – – – – – – – 0 0 0 SIN – – – 0 – 0 – – – 0 SRI – – – 0 0 – – – – 0 THA – – – 0 – 0 – – – 031 NAM 0 – – – – – – – – 0 NIU – – 0 – – – – – – 0 PNG – – 0 – – – – – – 0 ESP – – – – – – – – 0 0 TON – – 0 – – – – – – 0 WIN – – – 0 – – – 0 0 0 Source: world.rugby (archived) References IRB Sevens II 2001 Cardiff Sevens 2001 London Sevens — Cardiff Sevens 2001 Cardiff Sevens — 2002 Cardiff Sevens Category:2000–01 IRB Sevens World Series Category:2000–01 in Welsh rugby union Category:June 2001 sports events in the United Kingdom