2001 Cardiff Sevens

2001 Cardiff Sevens
IRB Sevens II
Host nation	Wales
Date	2–3 June 2001
Cup
Champion	New Zealand
Runner-up	Australia
Plate
Winner	Fiji
Runner-up	Wales
Bowl
Winner	England
Runner-up	Portugal
Tournament details
Matches played	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:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Canada
• England
• Fiji
• France
• Georgia
• New Zealand
• Portugal
• Russia
• Samoa
• Scotland
• Spain
• South Africa
• Wales
• West Indies

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.

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. 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.

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.

Key to colours in group tables
	Teams that advanced to the Cup quarterfinals
	Teams that advanced to the Bowl quarterfinals

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
New Zealand	3	3	0	0	114	5	+109	9
Argentina	3	2	0	1	46	41	+5	7
Portugal	3	1	0	2	29	65	−36	5
West Indies	3	0	0	3	24	102	−78	3

Source:

2 June 2001 13:00

New Zealand	24-0	Portugal

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 20011 13:20

Argentina	19–5	West Indies

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 15:30

New Zealand	59–0	West Indies

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 15:50

Argentina	22–5	Portugal

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 17:20

Portugal	24–19	West Indies

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 18:40

New Zealand	31–5	Argentina

Rodney Parade, Newport

Source:

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Australia	3	3	0	0	119	5	+114	9
Wales	3	2	0	1	50	57	−7	7
Canada	3	1	0	2	26	69	−43	5
Scotland	3	0	0	3	26	90	−64	3

Source:

2 June 2001 11:40

Canada	14-12	Scotland

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 20011 12:00

Australia	31–5	Wales

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 14:30

Australia	50–0	Scotland

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 16:10

Wales	19–12	Canada

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 18:00

Australia	38–0	Canada

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 19:00

Wales	26–14	Scotland

Rodney Parade, Newport

Source:

Pool C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Fiji	3	3	0	0	93	20	+73	9
Georgia	3	2	0	1	34	57	−23	7
England	3	0	1	2	46	55	−9	4
Spain	3	0	1	2	36	77	−41	4

Source:

2 June 2001 12:20

Fiji	33-0	Georgia

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 12:40

England	19–19	Spain

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 14:50

Fiji	41–5	Spain

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 15:10

Georgia	17–12	England

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 17:00

Georgia	17–12	Spain

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 18:20

Fiji	19–15	England

Rodney Parade, Newport

Source:

Pool D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Samoa	3	3	0	0	101	17	+84	9
South Africa	3	2	0	1	72	42	+30	7
Russia	3	1	0	2	31	69	−38	5
France	3	0	0	3	14	90	−76	3

Source:

2 June 2001 11:00

Samoa	40-0	France

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 11:20

South Africa	29–7	Russia

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 13:50

Samoa	33–7	Russia

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 14:10

South Africa	33–7	France

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 16:40

Russia	17–7	France

Rodney Parade, Newport

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2 June 2001 17:40

Samoa	28–10	South Africa

Rodney Parade, Newport

Source:

Knockout stage

Bowl

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Portugal	19
					3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Scotland	7
					Portugal	21
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
					Spain	19
	Russia	21
									3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Spain	26
									Portugal	26
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
									England	35
	Canada	38
					3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	West Indies	10
					Canada	14
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
					England	29
	England	17
	France	12

Source:

Plate

	Semi-finals				Final
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Wales	26
					3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Georgia	19
					Wales	14
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
					Fiji	47
	Argentina	21
	Fiji	28

Source:

Cup

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	New Zealand	29
					3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Wales	0
					New Zealand	24
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
					Samoa	7
	Samoa	38
									3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Georgia	17
									New Zealand	31
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
									Australia	5
	Australia	49
					3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
	Argentina	14
					Australia	21
	3 June 2001 – Millennium Stadium
					South Africa	12
	Fiji	7
	South Africa	28

Source:

Tournament placings

Place	Team	Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)	New Zealand	20
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	Australia	16
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	Samoa	12
	South Africa	12
5	Fiji	8
6	Wales	6
7	Argentina	4
	Georgia	4

Place	Team	Points
9	England	2
10	Portugal	0
11	Canada	0
	Spain	0
13	France	0
	Russia	0
	Scotland	0
	West Indies	0

Source: World Rugby

Series standings

At the completion of Round 9:

Pos.	Event  Team	Durban	Dubai	Wellington	Hong Kong	Shanghai	Kuala Lumpur	Tokyo	London	Cardiff	Points total
1	New Zealand	20	20	4	30	12	16	20	20	20	162
2	Australia	12	12	20	18	20	20	16	16	16	150
3	Fiji	16	16	16	24	8	12	12	12	8	124
4	Samoa	6	12	8	18	4	8	12	12	12	92
5	South Africa	8	8	2	8	16	12	8	8	12	82
6	Argentina	12	6	6	8	4	4	2	4	4	50
7	England	0	4	0	8	6	0	6	6	2	32
8	Canada	4	0	4	8	2	0	4	4	0	26
9	Wales	0	0	0	3	0	4	4	2	6	19
10	United States	–	–	12	4	–	–	0	–	–	16
11	South Korea	–	–	–	0	12	2	0	–	–	14
12	France	4	–	–	2	–	6	0	0	0	12
13	Cook Islands	–	–	12	–	–	–	–	–	–	12
14	Zimbabwe	0	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4
15	Portugal	2	–	–	2	–	–	–	0	0	4
16	Georgia	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	0	4	4
17	Ireland	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2
18	Hong Kong	–	0	–	1	0	–	0	–	–	1
19	Japan	–	–	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	0
20	Chinese Taipei	–	–	–	0	0	0	0	–	–	0
	Malaysia	–	–	–	0	0	0	0	–	–	0
22	China	–	–	0	0	0	–	–	–	–	0
	Russia	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	0	0	0
24	Arabian Gulf	–	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	0
	Kenya	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
	Morocco	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
	Scotland	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	0	0
	Singapore	–	–	–	0	–	0	–	–	–	0
	Sri Lanka	–	–	–	0	0	–	–	–	–	0
	Thailand	–	–	–	0	–	0	–	–	–	0
31	Namibia	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
	Niue	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
	Papua New Guinea	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
	Spain	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	0
	Tonga	–	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
	West Indies	–	–	–	0	–	–	–	0	0	0

Source: world.rugby (archived)