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Jan 24, 2015 Sports
The line-up for the 2015 Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens has been announced with the tournament retaining its status as the largest on the
HSBC Sevens World Series.
Twenty-eight men’s teams will compete in Hong Kong – 16 in the core team competition and 12 in the Sevens World Series qualifier – as the world-famous tournament celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Over 120,000 people are expected to attend over the weekend of 27-29 March, with a 12-team women’s invitational tournament and numerous social and youth competitions running alongside the 71-match men’s programme.
Reigning champions New Zealand and fellow core teams Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Fiji, France, Japan, Kenya, Portugal, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, USA and Wales are joined by tournament newcomers Belgium in the sixth round of the World Series. In accepting an invitation to take part, Belgium becomes the 57th country to compete in Hong Kong since 1976.
The 12-team line-up in the qualifier comprises two teams from each of World Rugby’s six regional associations. The winner will earn core team status for 2015-16 and replace the lowest ranked side at the conclusion of the current series.
Japan won the qualifier in Hong Kong last year to join the series. Russia and Spain are the representatives from Europe, Papua New Guinea and Tonga from Oceania, Zimbabwe and Tunisia from Africa, Mexico and Guyana from North America and the Caribbean, Uruguay and Brazil from South America and hosts Hong Kong and Korea from Asia.
World Rugby’s General Manager Sevens Avan Lee said: “Hong Kong is going to be very special for lots of reasons in 2015, not least because in the tournament’s 40th anniversary year the organisers will be pulling out all the stops to make their event even more special than it always is for the players and the fans.
“There is the excitement and drama that the World Series qualifier brings for those teams aspiring to join the top level, and of course the current series will be ticking past the half way stage in Hong Kong. With only the top four guaranteed an Olympic place in Rio 2016 at the end of the season each series point in crucial so there is a huge amount riding on every match.”
The official tournament draw for both men’s competitions will be held on 16 February.
Meanwhile, the GRFU has called the following players for 7s training on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 4:00 p.m – 6:00 p.m and Sundays, 9:00 a.m 11:00 a.m and game practice on Saturdays, 4:00 p.m – 6:00 p.m, at the National Park Rugby Ground;
Ryan Gonsalves, Patrick King, Avery Corbin, Godfrey Broomes, Dwayne Schroeder, Blaise Bailey, Rickford Cummings, Carl Lewis and Lancelot Adonis.
The Union has explained that the 7s Squad are required to train with the 15s Squad while undergoing special fitness training in preparation for 7s competition.
And the Guyana Rugby Football Union has also announced the names of players called to training practice in preparation for the NACRA 15s Championships, 7th March in Barbados; the World Rugby Sevens World Series, Hong Kong, 27th – 29th March and the NACRA 2016 Olympics Qualifier Championships,13th & 14th June, North Carolina.
The following players will be involved in the 15s training practice on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 4:00 p.m – 6:00 p.m and game practice on Sundays, 4:00 p.m – 6:00 p.m, at the National Park Rugby Ground.
Filon Thompson, Akeem Fraser, Terrence Daniels, Delroy Gordon, Cyon Kitt, W. Hutson, Ryan Dey, A. Jarvis, Jason DeFrietas, Allan Crawford, Kevon David, Osei McKenzie, Rondell Mc Arthur, Theodore Henry, Ryan Gonsalves, Jason Tyrell, P. Joseph, Avery Corbin, Jacques Archibald, K. Mars, Dwayne Schroeder, Lancelot Adonis, Leon Greaves, Rickford Cummings, Jermaine Prowell, Troy Bascom, Patrick King, Rawle Cole, Grantley Williams, Godfrey Broomes, Christopher Singh, Randy James, Blaise Bailey, Jamal Angus, Jose Felicien and Carl Lewis.
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