Women's Rugby Sevens Summer Olympic Schedule

July 5, 2016

Women’s Rugby Sevens Summer Olympic Schedule

Photo: Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Doug Coil

World Rugby has announced the schedule for rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Both the Men’s and Women’s competition will take place at the Deodoro Stadium starting Saturday, August 6 and finishing on Thursday, August 11. The Women’s matches will be from August 6-8, while the men play August 9-11.

The 12 teams are broken into three, four-team pools. The top two finishers from each pool move on to the quarterfinals with seeding determined by the pool standings. The two best third place finishers from the pool stages will also move on to the quarterfinals.

The quarterfinals begin the knockout round. Quarterfinal winners will move on to the semifinals, which will decide the teams playing in the Gold and Bronze Medal matches. The loser of the Gold Medal match will win the Silver Medal.

Pools

A: Australia, USA, Fiji, Colombia
B: New Zealand, France, Spain, Kenya
C: Canada, Great Britain , Brazil, Japan

USA Pool Matches

Fiji – August 6 Noon ET
Colombia – August 6 5pm ET
Australia – August 7 at 12:30pm ET
Quarterfinal – August 7 4pm or 5pm ET
Semi-Finals August 8 – 1:30pm & 2pm ET
Bronze – 5:30pm ET

Gold 6pm ET

Saturday, August 6

Match No.	Time (ET)	Matchup	Teams
1	10:00 am	B2 v. B3	France v. Spain
2	10:30 am	B1 v. B4	New Zealand v. Kenya
3	11:00 am	C2 v. C3	Great Britain v. Brazil
4	11:30 am	C1 v. C4	Canada v. Japan
5	12:00 pm	A2 v. A3	USA v. Fiji
6	12:30 pm	A1 v. A4	Australia v. Colombia
7	3:00 pm	B2 v. B4	France v. Kenya
8	3:30 pm	B1 v. B3	New Zealand v. Spain
9	4:00 pm	C2 v. C4	Great Britain v. Japan
10	4:30 pm	C1 v. C3	Canada v. Brazil
11	5:00 pm	A2 v. A4	USA v. Colombia
12	5:30 pm	A1 v. A3	Australia v. Fiji

Sunday, August 7

Match No.	Time (ET)	Matchup	Teams
13	10:00 am	B3 v. B4	Spain v. Kenya
14	10:30 am	B1 v. B2	New Zealand v. France
15	11:00 am	C3 v. C4	Brazil v. Japan
16	11:30 am	C1 v. C2	Canada v. Great Britain
17	12:00 pm	A3 v. A4	Fiji v. Colombia
18	12:30 pm	A1 v. A2	Australia v. USA
19	3:00 pm	Place 9-12	3rd best 3rd v. 3rd best 4th
20	3:30 pm	Place 9-12	Best 4th v. 2nd best 4th
21	4:00 pm	Quarterfinal 1	A1 v. 2nd best 3rd
22	4:30 pm	Quarterfinal 2	C2 v. B2
23	5:00 pm	Quarterfinal 3	C1 v. A2
24	5:30 pm	Quarterfinal 4	B1 v. best 3rd

Monday, August 8

Match No.	Time (ET)	Matchup	Teams
25	11:30 am	Place 11-12	Loser M19 v. Loser M20
26	12:00 pm	Place 9-10	Winner M19 v. Winner M20
27	12:30 pm	Place 5-8	Loser QF1 v. Loser QF2
28	1:00 pm	Place 5-8	Loser QF3 v. Loser QF4
29	1:30 pm	Semifinal 1	Winner QF1 v. Winner QF2
30	2:00 pm	Semifinal 2	Winner QF3 v. Winner QF4
31	4:30 pm	Place 7-8	Loser M27 v. Loser M28
32	5:00 pm	Place 5-6	Winner M27 v. Winner M28
33	5:30 pm	Bronze Medal	Loser SF1 v. Loser SF2
34	6:00 pm	Gold Medal	Winner SF1 v. Winner SF2