2020 Women's Rugby Sevens Final Olympic Qualification Tournament

2020 Women's Rugby Sevens Final Olympic Qualification Tournament
The tournament venue, Stade Louis II.
HostsMonaco Monaco
Date19–20 June 2021
Nations11
Qualification winners
 France and Russia 
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The final qualification repechage tournament for women's rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 19–20 June 2021 at Stade Louis II in Monaco.[1] The tournament was originally scheduled for a year earlier,[2] but was postponed until 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

Twelve women's teams were eligible to compete in the repechage tournament, as high placing teams from the six continental Olympic qualification events. Jamaica was a late withdrawal from the tournament due to travel difficulties presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of teams competing to eleven.[4]

France and Russia were the two best teams in the repechage, each going through the tournament undefeated. They claimed the two qualifying berths on offer for the women's sevens tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.[2][5]

  1. ^ "Monaco has been selected to host the World Rugby Sevens Repechage". Asia Rugby. 2020-12-17. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  2. ^ a b "World Rugby and IOC confirm rugby sevens qualification process for Tokyo 2020". insidethegames.biz. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Monaco to host final Olympics rugby sevens qualifier". China News. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020.
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