Rio Olympics 2016: Women Rugby Sevens – Historical Gold for Australia

Published 9 August 2016 | By Bullscot

Australia’s women beat New Zealand 24-17 to win the first ever Olympic rugby sevens gold medal, after Great Britain lost to Canada in the bronze match.

Favourites Australia outscored the Black Ferns four tries to three, with two of those coming while New Zealand’s Portia Woodman was in the sin bin.

Meanwhile, Britain’s women missed out on Olympic medal as they lost 33-10.

Canada – who lost to GB in the pool game between the two – led throughout in the bronze medal match.

Despite her disappointment, GB captain Emily Scarratt said: “If we’ve inspired any girls to take up rugby, we’ve done our job.”

Britain, who were beaten 25-7 by silver medallists New Zealand in the last four earlier on Monday, trailed 26-5 at half-time, with Canada taking full advantage of Scarratt’s yellow card for a deliberate knock on.

Tries by Jasmine Joyce and Danielle Waterman were little consolation, as third seeds Canada put in a physical performance, dominating at the breakdown.

The men’s sevens competition begins on Tuesday in Rio with Australia against France at 15:00 BST.

GB’s men begin their bid for a medal against Kenya an hour later.

bbc

65 Responses to Rio Olympics 2016: Women Rugby Sevens – Historical Gold for Australia

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  • 61

    Scrumdown on 12 August 2016 at 6:24 am

    Blitsbokke disappointed me again.

    Going the way of the Proteas in “must win” matches?

  • 62

    Scrumdown on 12 August 2016 at 6:25 am

    Bullscot wrote:

    Disappointed in the quality of the game. Just seems the 7s, from what I’ve seen, at the Olympics is played in slow motion much of the time with defences dominating and many silly errors being made

    Absolutely agree.

    Was not up to the standard of the regular world series events IMO.

  • 63

    Bullscot on 12 August 2016 at 11:46 am

    Congratulations Fiji on winning the gold medal. First ever Olympic gold in any sport for Fiji this is a huge achievement for them. Congratulations

  • 64

    Bullscot on 12 August 2016 at 11:50 am

    @ Scrumdown:
    Ja had not seen much 7s this year so did think it may have just been me out of touch with where the game is at. As I said before the 7s would watch if it was on council telly which it was just the last two games were quite late so didn’t watch them Am sorry now didn’t record them either as they would have been good compared to what preceded them.

  • 65

    cane on 12 August 2016 at 1:02 pm

    @ Bullscot:
    I also congratulate Fiji on their magnificence.
    And in the Final they where magnificence personified.
    And to the Blizboks also congratulations.
    Bronze is a lot better. …….a lot better. …..a whole lot better……..than my lot did. And we had High expectations. VERY high .

    So enjoy your success. Revel in it.

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