The 2019 Japan Women's Sevens was the fourth tournament within the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the third edition of the Japan Women's Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 20–21 April 2019 at Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu.
Format The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.
Teams Eleven core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, 2018 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series winner Japan:
Pool stage All times in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33009536+59931116746+21631115571–166300340104–643
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33008550+35932019722+75731025388–355300345120–753
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33008924+65932017358+15731024356–13530033097–673
Knockout stage
Challenge Trophy
MatchesSemifinals
Eleventh Place
Final
5th place
MatchesSemifinals
Seventh Place
Final
Cup
MatchesQuarterfinals
Semifinals
Third Place
Final
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam Points 20 18 164 145 126 10
PlaceTeam Points7 88 69 410 311 212 1
Source: World Rugby
Players
Scoring leaders
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Anne-Cécile Ciofani 9 2 Baizat Khamidova 6 Bianca Farella Emma Tonegato 5 7 players 5
+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Alev Kelter 53 2 Anne-Cécile Ciofani 45 3 Emma Sykes 42 4 Holly Aitchison 41 5 Ghislaine Landry 37 Tyla Nathan-Wong
Source: World Rugby
See also World Rugby Women's Sevens Series 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
References
External links World Rugby info