The French rugby sevens team will play in the Olympic final this Saturday.
Will rugby 7s offer one of its first medals to France during the Paris Olympics 2024 ? Both French teams, men’s and women’s, are aiming for the gold medal. The French, who are currently the third-ranked nation in the world, will have to beat the Australians and New Zealanders, the tournament favourites, to do so. On the men’s side, the team can count on the support of none other than Antoine Dupont. The French XV scrum-half has already taken part in several tournaments with the VII, with some promising successes to his name. So all hopes are allowed. But be careful, because France could be eliminated before the opening ceremony. Discover the tournament’s schedule, highlights and rankings.
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In the final, the French rugby 7s team will face Fiji. In the group stage, the two nations had already faced each other. Kick-off at 7:45 p.m.
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Where and when do the rugby sevens events take place?
The men’s rugby sevens tournament has been set for July 24-27, 2024, while the women’s tournament has been scheduled for July 28-30, 2024. The rugby sevens events are played at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. Rugby sevens is a recent discipline of the Summer Games, it arrived at the Olympic Games in 2016. The Paris Olympic rugby tournament is therefore the third edition.
At the Olympics, the top two in the group and the two best third-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals.
Group A
- New Zealand: 9pts
- Ireland: 6pts
- South Africa: 5pts
- Japan: 1pt
Group B
- Australia: 9pts
- Argentina: 6pts
- Samoa: 4pts
- Kenya: 1pt
Group C
- Fiji: 6 pts
- France: 6pts
- United States: 6pts
- Uruguay: 2pts
Men
Saturday July 27
- 7:00 p.m.: South Africa – Australia
- 7:45 p.m.: France – Fiji
Sunday July 28
- 3:30 p.m.: Ireland – Great Britain, women, pool B
- 4:00 p.m.: Australia – South Africa, women, pool B
- 4:30 p.m.: United States of America – Japan, women, pool C
- 5:00 p.m.: France – Brazil, women, group C
- 5:30 p.m.: Fiji – Canada, women, group A
- 6:00 p.m.: New Zealand – People’s Republic of China, Women, Pool A
- 7:00 p.m.: Ireland – South Africa, women, pool B
- 7:30 p.m.: Australia – Great Britain, women, pool B
- 8:00 p.m.: United States of America – Brazil, women, group C
- 8:30 p.m.: France – Japan, women, group C
- 9:00 p.m.: Fiji – People’s Republic of China, Women, Pool A
- 9:30 p.m.: New Zealand – Canada, women, group A
Monday July 29
- 2:00 p.m.: Great Britain – South Africa, women, pool B
- 2:30 p.m.: Australia – Ireland, women, pool B
- 3:00 p.m.: Japan – Brazil, women, group C
- 3:30 p.m.: France – United States of America, women, group C
- 4:00 p.m.: Canada – People’s Republic of China, women, pool A
- 4:30 p.m.: New Zealand – Fiji, women, pool A
- 8:00 p.m.: seats 9-12, women
- 8:30 p.m.: seats 9-12, women
- 9:00 p.m.: quarter-final, women
- 9:30 p.m.: quarter-final, women
- 10:00 p.m.: quarter-final, women
- 10:30 p.m.: quarter-final, women
Tuesday July 30
- 2:30 p.m.: places 5-8, women
- 3:00 p.m.: places 5-8, women
- 3:30 p.m.: semi-finals, women
- 4:00 p.m.: semi-finals, women
- 4:30 p.m.: places 11-12, women
- 5:00 p.m.: places 9-10, women
- 6:00 p.m.: places 7-8, women
- 6:30 p.m.: places 5-6, women
- 7:00 p.m.: Bronze medal final, women
- 7:45 p.m.: Women’s gold medal final
Rugby sevens is played on the same pitch as rugby union, and as a result, the spaces are much larger. With two seven-minute halves, the match is also much shorter. In the last Olympics, Fiji dominated the men’s tournament, winning both gold medals. In the women’s tournament, Australia won the gold medal in 2016, while New Zealand were Olympic champions in 2021. The French won the silver medal.