The South Africa Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens. The 2009 competition took place on 11 December and 12 December at Outeniqua Park in George, Western Cape, the second of eight Cup events at the 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series. New Zealand won its second consecutive title by defeating Fiji in the final.
Format The tournament consists of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progress to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in cup semi-finals and the losers competing in plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in shield semi-finals.
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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|align=left| |3||0||0||3||26||102||-76||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2009-12-1138–14 2009-12-1150–0 2009-12-1129–5 2009-12-1133–7 2009-12-11 5–31 2009-12-1112–12
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
|align=left| |3||3||0||0||112||19||93||9
|align=left| |3||1||1||1||35||50||-15||6 |- |align=left| |3||1||0||2||33||83||-50||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||1||2||38||66||-28||4
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2009-12-1150–7 2009-12-1114–14 2009-12-1131–12 2009-12-1121–5 2009-12-1121–12 2009-12-1131–0
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 |- |align=left| |3||3||0||0||60||29||31||9
|align=left| |3||2||0||1||96||34||62||7
|align=left| |3||1||0||2||25||55||-30||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||0||3||19||82||-63||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2009-12-11 22–24 2009-12-1115–12 2009-12-1157–0 2009-12-11 0–26 2009-12-1110–7 2009-12-1117–10
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||91||26||65||9 |- |align=left| |3||2||0||1||65||22||43||7
|align=left| |3||1||0||2||50||58||-8||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||0||3||14||114||-100||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2009-12-11 5–15 2009-12-1145–0 2009-12-1126–14 2009-12-1117–7 2009-12-1143–0 2009-12-11 19–29
Knockout
Shield
Bowl
Plate
Cup
Statistics
Individual points
Individual Points Pos. Player Country Points 1 William Ryder 67 2 Ben Gollings 55 3 Mike Adamson 53 4 Lavin Asego 38 5 Mzwandile Stick 36 6 Christian Wade 35 7 Joaquin Todeschini 33 8 Sherwin Stowers 32 9 Collins Injera 30 10 Diogo Miranda 28
Individual tries
Individual Tries Pos. Player Country Tries 1 William Ryder 7 2 Christian Wade 7 3 Collins Injera 6 4 Sherwin Stowers 6 5 Mike Adamson 5 6 Renauld Delmas 5 7 Ben Gollings 5 8 Zar Lawrence 5 9 Andrew Turnbull 5 10 Cecil Afrika 4
External links
IRB Sevens South Africa 7s on irb.com