2000 Punta del Este Sevens

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2000 Punta del Este Sevens
IRB Sevens I
Host nationFlag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay
Date7–8 January 2000
Cup
ChampionFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Runner-upFlag of Fiji.svg  Fiji
Plate
WinnerFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Runner-upFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Bowl
WinnerFlag of France.svg  France
Runner-upFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Tournament details
Matches played41

The 2000 Punta del Este Sevens was a Rugby Sevens tournament held in Punta del Este, Uruguay and was the third leg of the 1999-2000 World Sevens Series. The competition took place on 7 and 8 January at the Campus de Maldonado. [1]

Contents

The hosts, Uruguay were eliminated in the Plate semi-finals. [1] For the third consecutive event in the Series, the Cup final was contested between Fiji and New Zealand. The Punta del Este Sevens was not included on the World Sevens circuit for the 2000-01 series.

Teams

Sixteen national teams played in the tournament with New Zealand and Fiji being seeded one and two due to winning the previous two tournaments in Dubai and Stellenbosch. [2] Peru were debuting on the world stage after becoming a member of the International Rugby Board as they were invited to compete in Punta del Este and Mar del Plata. [3]

Format

The pool stage was played on the first day of the tournament. The 16 teams were separated into four pools of four teams and teams in the same pool played each other once. The top two teams in each pool advanced to the Cup quarterfinals to compete for the 2000 Punta del Este Sevens title. [4]

Summary

The first day of the Punta del Este Sevens saw three teams end the day unbeaten from their pool stages. In Pool A, it was New Zealand who had an handful of players playing rugby sevens for the first time finishing top with victories over Spain (50–5), Peru (63–0) and Uruguay (24–5). Joint-leaders in the series heading into the round, Fiji only conceded twelve points in their group to finish top of the group with Canada coming in second place. The other team that finished unbeaten throughout Day 1 was Argentina who just slightly edged over Samoa, 19–12 in the fifth game of Pool D to finish top of the pool. [5] Pool C was the only group to not have an unbeaten team with Chile forcing an tiebreaker after defeating South Africa 28–21. But Chile was the unlucky team with the team being the lowest in point average off the three teams. [6]

The second day of the tournament saw the first extra time match in the series history with South Africa defeating Argentina 24–19 in the cup quarter final after they initially were locked at 19-all during regulation. [7] After recording victories over South Africa and Samoa in the semi-finals respectively, New Zealand and Fiji met in the third consecutive cup final. During the final, an injury to Fijian player Waisele Serevi occurred in the 14th minute of the final with the score at 21–19. [7] The injury saw New Zealand score three more tries and go to the top of the table with a 42–19 victory. Australia won the plate final for the third consecutive event defeating Canada while France took out the bowl defeating Germany. [8]

Pool stage

Key to colours in group tables
Teams that advanced to the Cup quarterfinals
Teams that advanced to the Bowl quarterfinals

Pool A

TeamPldWDLPFPA+/-Pts
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 330013710+1279
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 32016736+317
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 31024881−335
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 30035130−1253

Source: World Rugby

7 January
16:00
Uruguay  Flag of Uruguay.svg36–7Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
16:20
New Zealand  Flag of New Zealand.svg50–5Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
18:40
New Zealand  Flag of New Zealand.svg63–0Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
19:00
Uruguay  Flag of Uruguay.svg26–12Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
21:20
New Zealand  Flag of New Zealand.svg24–5Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
22:00
Spain  Flag of Spain.svg31–5Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

Source: World Rugby

Pool B

TeamPldWDLPFPA+/-Pts
Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 330014812+1369
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 32016142+197
Flag of France.svg  France 31024768−215
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 30037141−1343

Source: World Rugby

7 January
16:40
Fiji  Flag of Fiji.svg42–12Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
17:00
France  Flag of France.svg47–7Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
19:20
Fiji  Flag of Fiji.svg59–0Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
19:40
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg14–0Flag of France.svg  France
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
21:40
Fiji  Flag of Fiji.svg47–0Flag of France.svg  France
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
22:20
Canada  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg35–0Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

Source: World Rugby

Pool C

TeamPldWDLPFPA+/-Pts
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 32019231+617
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 32019852+467
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 32015954+57
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 300317129−1123

Source: World Rugby

7 January
17:20
Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg26–5Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
17:40
South Africa  Flag of South Africa.svg56–5Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
20:00
South Africa  Flag of South Africa.svg21–19Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
20:20
Chile  Flag of Chile.svg26–7Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
22:40
Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg47–5Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
23:00
Chile  Flag of Chile.svg28–21Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

Source: World Rugby

Pool D

TeamPldWDLPFPA+/-Pts
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 330010722+859
Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 32018033+477
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 31024371−285
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 300319123−1043

Source: World Rugby

7 January
18:00
Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg42–5Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
18:20
Samoa  Flag of Samoa.svg25–0Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
20:40
Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg46–5Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
21:00
Samoa  Flag of Samoa.svg43–14Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
23:20
Argentina  Flag of Argentina.svg19–12Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

7 January
23:40
United States  Flag of the United States.svg38–0Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Campus de Maldonado, Punta del Este

Source: World Rugby

Finals

Bowl

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
 
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 26
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 5
 
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 12
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 26
 
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 21
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 12
 
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 12
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of France.svg  France 31
 
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 29
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 5
 
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 10
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of France.svg  France 14
 
Flag of France.svg  France 50
 
 
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 0
 

Source: World Rugby

Plate

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
 
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 5
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 35
 
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 27
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 12
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 17
 
 
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 12
 

Source: World Rugby

Cup

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
 
Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 38
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 5
 
Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 19
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 7
 
Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 12
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 7
 
Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 19
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 42
 
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 33
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 0
 
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 31
 
8 January – Punta del Este
 
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 7
 
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa (aet)24
 
 
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 19
 

Source: World Rugby

Tournament placings

Place TeamPoints
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 20
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 16
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 12
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 12
5Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 8
6Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 6
7Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 4
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 4
Place TeamPoints
9Flag of France.svg  France 2
10Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 0
11Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 0
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 0
13Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 0
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 0
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 0
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 0

Source: Rugby7.com [9]

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