2009 Adelaide Sevens

{{Infobox Rugby Sevens

| countries = {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia

| series = IRB Sevens X

| date = 3–5 April 2009

| champions1 = {{ru7|RSA}}

| runnersup1 = {{ru7|KEN}}

| champions2 = {{ru7|ENG}}

| runnersup2 = {{ru7|AUS}}

| champions3 = {{ru7|SAM}}

| runnersup3 = {{ru7|FRA}}

| champions4 = {{ru7|USA}}

| runnersup4 = {{ru7|SCO}}

| matches =

| attendance =

| tries =

| top point scorer =

| top try scorer =

| prevseason = 2008

| nextseason = 2010

}}

The 2009 Adelaide Sevens, promoted as the International Rugby Sevens Adelaide 2009, was a rugby sevens tournament that was part of the IRB Sevens World Series in the 2008–09 season. It was the Australian Sevens leg of the series, held between 3 and 5 April at the Adelaide Oval in South Australia.

South Africa retained their title, and took an almost unassailable lead in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series, defeating rapidly improving Kenya in the final. England won the Plate, Samoa the Bowl and the US the Shield.

Format

The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played the other teams in their pool once, with 3 points awarded for a win, 2 points for a draw, and 1 point for a loss (no points awarded for a forfeit). The top two teams from each group progressed 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 progressed 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

The participating teams were:

{{Ru7|ARG}}
{{Ru7|AUS}}
{{Ru7|Cook Islands}}
{{Ru7|ENG}}
{{Ru7|FRA}}
{{Ru7|FJI}}
{{Ru7|JPN}}
{{Ru7|KEN}}

{{Ru7|NZL}}
{{Ru7|PRT}}
{{Ru7|SAM}}
{{Ru7|SCO}}
{{Ru7|ZAF}}
{{Ru7|TON}}
{{Ru7|USA}}
{{Ru7|WAL}}

Pool stages

The tournament started on the Friday night and Saturday with matches between teams in the same pool on a round robin basis. The following is a list of the recorded results.

=Pool A=

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
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
align=left\| {{Ru7\|AUS}} \|3	3	0	0	78	41	+37	9
align=left\| {{Ru7\|ENG}} \|3	1	1	1	70	45	+25	6
align=left\| {{Ru7\|SAM}} \|3	1	1	1	69	55	+14	6
align=left\| {{Ru7\|PRT}} \|3	0	0	3	10	86\|
76	3

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bgcolor="#008B00"

| Date

| Team 1

| Score

| Team 2

2009-04-03

| {{Ru7|ENG}}

| bgcolor="silver" |17–21

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|AUS}}

2009-04-03

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|SAM}}

| bgcolor="silver" |26–5

| {{Ru7|PRT}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|ENG}}

| bgcolor="silver" |29–0

| {{Ru7|PRT}}

2009-04-04

| {{Ru7|SAM}}

| bgcolor="silver" |26–19

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|AUS}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|AUS}}

| bgcolor="silver" |31–5

| {{Ru7|PRT}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|ENG}}

| bgcolor="silver" |24–24

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|SAM}}

=Pool B=

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
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
align=left\| {{Ru7\|FIJ}} \|3	3	0	0	80	38	+42	9
align=left\| {{Ru7\|ARG}} \|3	2	0	1	47	40	+7	7
align=left\| {{Ru7\|FRA}} \|3	1	0	2	41	47\|
6	5
align=left\| {{Ru7\|SCO}} \|3	0	0	3	26	69\|
43	3

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| Date

| Team 1

| Score

| Team 2

2009-04-03

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|ARG}}

| bgcolor="silver" |14–7

| {{Ru7|FRA}}

2009-04-03

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|FIJ}}

| bgcolor="silver" |33–7

| {{Ru7|SCO}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|ARG}}

| bgcolor="silver" |12–7

| {{Ru7|SCO}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|FIJ}}

| bgcolor="silver" |21–10

| {{Ru7|FRA}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|FRA}}

| bgcolor="silver" |24–12

| {{Ru7|SCO}}

2009-04-04

| {{Ru7|ARG}}

| bgcolor="silver" |21–26

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|FIJ}}

=Pool C=

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
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
align=left\| {{Ru7\|NZL}} \|3	3	0	0	84	15	+69	9
align=left\| {{Ru7\|WAL}} \|3	1	0	2	53	67\|
14	5
align=left\| {{Ru7\|USA}} \|3	1	0	2	39	65\|
26	5
align=left\| {{Ru7\|TON}} \|3	1	0	2	40	69\|
29	5

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bgcolor="#008B00"

| Date

| Team 1

| Score

| Team 2

2009-04-03

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|NZL}}

| bgcolor="silver" |24–10

| {{Ru7|WAL}}

2009-04-03

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|USA}}

| bgcolor="silver" |17–14

| {{Ru7|TON}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|NZL}}

| bgcolor="silver" |33–0

| {{Ru7|TON}}

2009-04-04

| {{Ru7|USA}}

| bgcolor="silver" |17–24

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|WAL}}

2009-04-04

| {{Ru7|WAL}}

| bgcolor="silver" |19–26

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|TON}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|NZL}}

| bgcolor="silver" |27–5

| {{Ru7|USA}}

=Pool D=

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
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
align=left\| {{Ru7\|KEN}} \|3	3	0	0	54	19	+35	9
align=left\| {{Ru7\|RSA}} \|3	2	0	1	85	22	+63	7
align=left\| {{Ru7\|JPN}} \|3	1	0	2	25	67\|
42	5
align=left\| {{Ru7\|Cook Islands}} \|3	0	0	3	19	75\|
56	3

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| Date

| Team 1

| Score

| Team 2

2009-04-03

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|RSA}}

| bgcolor="silver" |28–7

| {{Ru7|Cook Islands}}

2009-04-03

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|KEN}}

| bgcolor="silver" |12–5

| {{Ru7|JPN}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|RSA}}

| bgcolor="silver" |43–0

| {{Ru7|JPN}}

2009-04-04

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|KEN}}

| bgcolor="silver" |27–0

| {{Ru7|Cook Islands}}

2009-04-04

| {{Ru7|Cook Islands}}

| bgcolor="silver" |12–20

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|JPN}}

2009-04-04

| {{Ru7|RSA}}

| bgcolor="silver" |14–15

| bgcolor="silver" |{{Ru7|KEN}}

Knockout

Play on the last day of the tournament consisted of finals matches for the Bowl, Plate, and Cup competitions. The following is a list of the recorded results.

=Shield=

{{Round8

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|SAM}}|27|{{Ru7|SCO}}|14

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|JPN}}|19|{{Ru7|TON}}|33

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|USA}}|19|{{Ru7|Cook Islands}}|31

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|FRA}}|27|{{Ru7|POR}}|12

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|SCO}}|17|{{Ru7|JPN}}|14

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|USA}}|29|{{Ru7|POR}}|14

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|SCO}}|21|{{Ru7|USA}}|24

}}

=Bowl=

{{Round8

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|SAM}}|27|{{Ru7|SCO}}|14

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|JPN}}|19|{{Ru7|TON}}|33

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|USA}}|19|{{Ru7|Cook Islands}}|31

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|FRA}}|27|{{Ru7|POR}}|12

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|SAM}}|24|{{Ru7|TON}}|12

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|Cook Islands}}|14|{{Ru7|FRA}}|35

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|SAM}}|35|{{Ru7|FRA}}|14

}}

=Plate=

{{Round8

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|AUS}}|5|{{Ru7|ARG}}|12

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|KEN}}|33|{{Ru7|WAL}}|14

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|NZL}}|0|{{Ru7|RSA}}|17

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|FJI}}|40|{{Ru7|ENG}}|0

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|AUS}}|38|{{Ru7|WAL}}|7

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|NZL}}|14|{{Ru7|ENG}}|21

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|AUS}}|19|{{Ru7|ENG}}|24

}}

=Cup=

{{Round8

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|AUS}}|5|{{Ru7|ARG}}|12

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|KEN}}|33|{{Ru7|WAL}}|14

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|NZL}}|0|{{Ru7|RSA}}|17

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|FJI}}|40|{{Ru7|ENG}}|0

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|ARG}}|5|{{Ru7|KEN}}|17

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|RSA}}|21|{{Ru7|FJI}}|10

|5 April - Adelaide, Australia |{{Ru7|KEN}}|7|{{Ru7|RSA}}|26

}}

Statistics

= Individual points =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
bgcolor="#efefef" ! colspan=4 style="border-right:0px;"; \| Individual points {{cite web\|url=http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/pointdetails.html \|title=Season Player Points \|publisher=International Rugby Board \|accessdate=2008-04-04 \|author=IRB.com \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403212117/http://irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/pointdetails.html \|archivedate=3 April 2009 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy }} Updated:2009-04-05
bgcolor="#efefef" ! width=5%\|Pos. ! Player ! Country ! Points
align=center\|1	align=left\| Richard Kingi	{{Ru7\|AUS}}	align=center\|46
align=center\|2	align=left\|Renfred Dazel	{{Ru7\|RSA}}	align=center\|43
align=center\|3	align=left\| Lolo Lui	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|41
align=center\|4	align=left\| Nasoni Roko	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|33
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Lionel Mapoe	{{Ru7\|RSA}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\|Kevin Swiryn	{{Ru7\|USA}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Afa Aiono	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Ben Gollings	{{Ru7\|ENG}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Tom Varndell	{{Ru7\|ENG}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|10	align=left\| Martin Rodriguez	{{Ru7\|ARG}}	align=center\|29

= Individual tries =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
bgcolor="#efefef" ! colspan=4 style="border-right:0px;"; \| Individual tries {{cite web\|url=http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/triesdetails.html \|title=Season Player Tries \|publisher=International Rugby Board \|accessdate=2008-04-04 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409025245/http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/triesdetails.html \|archivedate=9 April 2008 \|url-status=dead }} Updated:2009-04-05
bgcolor="#efefef" ! width=5%\|Pos. ! Player ! Country ! Tries
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Afa Aiono	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Lionel Mapoe	{{Ru7\|RSA}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Kevin Swiryn	{{Ru7\|USA}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Tom Varndell	{{Ru7\|ENG}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Alafoti Fa'osiliva	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Shaun Foley	{{Ru7\|AUS}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Vereniki Goneva	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Collins Injera	{{Ru7\|KEN}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Nasoni Roko	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Niumaia Rokobuli	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|5

Reference list

{{Reflist||refs=

{{cite web

|year=2011

|title= IRB Sevens X Adelaide, Australia.

|website= rugby7.com

|accessdate= 9 December 2013

|url= http://rugby7.com/st.asp?T=ADE-2009

|url-status=live

|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131212210938/http://rugby7.com/st.asp?T=ADE-2009

|archivedate=12 December 2013

}}

{{cite web

|title= Ultimate Rugby Sevens Match Archive - HSBC World Sevens Series Adelaide

|website= ur7s.com

|accessdate= 7 December 2013

|url= http://ur7s.com/match-archive?team_a=&team_b=&series=HSBC+World+Sevens+Series&season=2008-2009&country=Australia&tournament=Adelaide&submit=Search

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131217230902/http://ur7s.com/match-archive?team_a=&team_b=&series=HSBC+World+Sevens+Series&season=2008-2009&country=Australia&tournament=Adelaide&submit=Search

|archive-date= 17 December 2013

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}}

{{cite web

|title=IRB Sevens - Format & Regulation - 16-team tournament

|website=irbsevens.com

|accessdate=9 December 2013

|url=http://www.irbsevens.com/seriesinfo/rules.html

|url-status=usurped

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520160501/http://irbsevens.com/seriesinfo/rules.html

|archivedate=20 May 2013

}}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100208082231/http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/index.html IRB Sevens]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080218041633/http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/edition=6/index.html Adelaide Sevens] on irb.com

{{succession box|title=Adelaide Sevens|before=Hong Kong Sevens|after=London Sevens|years=2009}}

Adelaide

Adelaide Sevens

Category:Australian Sevens

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
bgcolor="#efefef" ! colspan=4 style="border-right:0px;"; \| Individual points {{cite web\|url=http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/pointdetails.html \|title=Season Player Points \|publisher=International Rugby Board \|accessdate=2008-04-04 \|author=IRB.com \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403212117/http://irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/pointdetails.html \|archivedate=3 April 2009 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy }} Updated:2009-04-05
bgcolor="#efefef" ! width=5%\|Pos. ! Player ! Country ! Points
align=center\|1	align=left\| Richard Kingi	{{Ru7\|AUS}}	align=center\|46
align=center\|2	align=left\|Renfred Dazel	{{Ru7\|RSA}}	align=center\|43
align=center\|3	align=left\| Lolo Lui	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|41
align=center\|4	align=left\| Nasoni Roko	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|33
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Lionel Mapoe	{{Ru7\|RSA}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\|Kevin Swiryn	{{Ru7\|USA}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Afa Aiono	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Ben Gollings	{{Ru7\|ENG}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Tom Varndell	{{Ru7\|ENG}}	align=center\|30
align=center\|10	align=left\| Martin Rodriguez	{{Ru7\|ARG}}	align=center\|29

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
bgcolor="#efefef" ! colspan=4 style="border-right:0px;"; \| Individual tries {{cite web\|url=http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/triesdetails.html \|title=Season Player Tries \|publisher=International Rugby Board \|accessdate=2008-04-04 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409025245/http://www.irb.com/irbsevens/statistics/triesdetails.html \|archivedate=9 April 2008 \|url-status=dead }} Updated:2009-04-05
bgcolor="#efefef" ! width=5%\|Pos. ! Player ! Country ! Tries
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Afa Aiono	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Lionel Mapoe	{{Ru7\|RSA}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Kevin Swiryn	{{Ru7\|USA}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|1=	align=left\| Tom Varndell	{{Ru7\|ENG}}	align=center\|6
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Alafoti Fa'osiliva	{{Ru7\|SAM}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Shaun Foley	{{Ru7\|AUS}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Vereniki Goneva	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Collins Injera	{{Ru7\|KEN}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Nasoni Roko	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|5
align=center\|5=	align=left\| Niumaia Rokobuli	{{Ru7\|FIJ}}	align=center\|5