2008 South Africa Sevens

The Emirates Airlines South Africa Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of rugby union). The 2008 competition, took place on 5 December and 6 December at Outeniqua Park in George, Western Cape, it was the second Cup trophy in the 2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series.

Teams

Pool stages

Pool A {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts

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Date Team 1 Score Team 2 5 December 200840–5 5 December 200842–7 5 December 200836–0 5 December 200821–7 5 December 200819–14 5 December 200819–7

Pool B {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts

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Date Team 1 Score Team 2 5 December 200824–0 5 December 200826–5 5 December 200831–5 5 December 2008 26–28 5 December 200838–0 5 December 200817–7

Pool C {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts

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Date Team 1 Score Team 2 5 December 200831–0 5 December 200826–12 5 December 200824–14 5 December 200814–0 5 December 2008 7–17 5 December 200826–17

Pool D {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts |- |align=left| |3||3||0||0||52||46||+6||9

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Date Team 1 Score Team 2 5 December 200831–5 5 December 2008 12–14 5 December 2008 17–19 5 December 200819–12 5 December 2008 17–19 5 December 200817–12

Knockout

Shield

Bowl

Plate

Cup

Statistics

Individual points

Individual pointsUpdated:6 December 2008 Pos. Player Country Points 1 Tomasi Cama 59 2 Richard Kingi 51 3 Ben Gollings 41 4= Gonzalo Comacho 35 4= Luke Morahan 35 4= Mickey Young 35 4= Tangai Nemadire 35 8 Paul Albaladejo 34 9 Pedro Leal 32 10 Gerald Sibanda 30

Individual tries

Individual triesUpdated:6 December 2008 Pos. Player Country Tries 1= Gonzalo Camacho 7 1= Luke Morahan 7 1= Mickey Young 7 4 Gerald Sibanda 6 5= Tomasi Cama 5 5= Robert Ebersohn 5 5= Richard Kingi 5 5= David Mateus 5 5= Tangai Nemadire 5 10 Paul Albaladejo 4

References

External links

IRB Sevens South Africa 7s on irb.com