The 2009 Rugby sevens World Cup was the fifth edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens . The International Rugby Board (IRB) selected Dubai in the United Arab Emirates as the host venue for the tournament ahead of bids from four other countries. The format included nine direct qualifiers and a further fifteen qualifiers from all six regions defined by the IRB. A women's version of the world cup was also held alongside the men's tournament for the first time and featured sixteen teams. The men's cup was won by Wales , with the women's cup going to Australia .
16-534: The Melrose Cup is the main prize of the Rugby World Cup Sevens . The trophy is named after the town of Melrose, Scotland , the birthplace of rugby sevens where in 1883 local butcher boy Ned Haig with help of his boss David Sanderson invited local rugby union teams to play a small tournament as a fundraiser event for the Melrose Rugby Club that had financial issues. The trophy has been presented to
32-577: Is the quadrennial world championship of rugby sevens , a variant of rugby union . Organised by World Rugby , it currently consists of men's and women's tournaments, and is the highest level of competition in the sport outside of the Summer Olympics . The first tournament was held in 1993 in Scotland , and was won by England . The winners of the men's tournament are awarded the Melrose Cup , named after
48-885: The 2009 tournament, Wales defeated Argentina 19–12 in the final, and Wales' Taliesin Selley was named player of the tournament. The top all-time try-scorer for the Rugby World Cup Sevens is Fijian winger Marika Vunibaka , who scored 23 tries in three of the Sevens World Cups he played in from 1997 to 2005. Serevi ranks second with 19 career World Cup Sevens tries, over four tournaments from 1993 to 2005. Brian Lima ranks third with 17 tries. The top points scorers are Serevi with 297 points, Vunibaka with 115 points, and Lima with 101 points. Up to date as of 12 September 2022 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens The men's teams of Fiji, New Zealand and Australia, who entered
64-503: The Olympic tournament. However, it was later decided in 2013 that the tournament would continue to be held, as it can accommodate a larger field than the Olympic rugby sevens tournaments, and would allow an elite-level competition to take place biennially from 2016. The next tournament would be held in 2018, one year later than usual, in order to accommodate the integration of the Olympics into
80-576: The Scottish town of Melrose where the first rugby sevens game was played. A women's tournament was introduced at the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai , and was first won by Australia . After the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens , the tournament took an extended, five-year hiatus to allow the integration of rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics into the competitive calendar. The 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens
96-644: The World Cup Sevens so that the Olympic Games would be the one pinnacle in a four-year cycle for Rugby Sevens. The adoption of rugby sevens and golf was recommended to the full International Olympic Committee council by its executive board in August 2009. The International Olympic Committee voted in 2009 for rugby sevens to become a medal event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . The IRB Council in 2010 awarded
112-631: The competitive calendar. On 13 May 2015, it was announced that the United States would host the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens . The 2001 tournament added another chapter to the legend of New Zealand's Jonah Lomu . Lomu, used sparingly in pool play, received his opportunity when New Zealand captain Eric Rush broke his leg in the last pool match. Lomu went on to score three tries in the final. In 2005, Waisale Serevi came out of international retirement to captain and lead Fiji to their second Melrose Cup. At
128-740: The five candidates. The voting process consisted of two rounds. No clear majority was reached in the first round and therefore the top two, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Australia, progressed to a second round, with the IRB subsequently selecting the UAE as the host union. The IRB cited the provision of a new purpose built stadium , the recent success of the Dubai Sevens tournament and the Under 19 Rugby World Championship as strong factors in their decision to select
144-466: The hosting of the 2013 tournament to Moscow, Russia from a field of eight nations that had expressed formal interest in hosting. The IRB intended that the exposure to rugby from hosting the World Cup Sevens would accelerate the growth of rugby in Russia . It featured 24 men's teams and 16 women's teams. The IRB originally intended to discontinue Rugby World Cup Sevens after the 2013 edition, in favour of
160-504: The inaugural tournament, defeating Australia 21–17 in the final. Hong Kong, which had played a major role in the international development of the Sevens game, hosted the 1997 event . The final was won by Fiji over South Africa. The 2001 tournament was held in Mar del Plata , Argentina. The 2005 event returned to Hong Kong. At the 2009 tournament, Wales, Samoa, Argentina and Kenya combined to stun
176-524: The rugby world by defeating the traditional powerhouses of New Zealand, England, South Africa and Fiji in the quarter-finals, guaranteeing a new Melrose Cup winner. Wales and Argentina met in the final, with Wales triumphing 19–12. The IRB made a submission to the International Olympic Committee in 2005 for rugby sevens to become an Olympic sport. However, the submission failed because committee members felt IRB needed to improve promotion of
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#1732852715952192-451: The semi-finals in the two previous editions, failed to do so in 2009: the former were defeated by quarter-finals Kenya and Wales respectively, whereas Australia lost two of the three matches in the pool stage and did not advance to quarter-finals. Wales, which had never reached quarter-finals in the previous editions of the World Cup, beat Samoa in semi-finals and Argentina in the final to win
208-515: The tournament. Kenya had never reached the Cup or Plate stages before, but shared 3rd place in 2009. A record seven countries originally expressed interest in hosting the tournament however, only five officially submitted bids for hosting rights after Kenya and South Africa withdrew from the bidding process. The United Arab Emirates , Australia , the Netherlands , Russia and the United States were
224-558: The winner of the world cup since the inaugural tournament in 1993 . The only teams to have held the trophy are England , Wales , Fiji and current cup holders New Zealand . The winner of the first tournament was England . This article about a rugby union competition is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sport in Scotland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rugby World Cup Sevens Rugby World Cup Sevens ( RWCS )
240-402: The women's game. To that end, the IRB implemented the first women's Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament in 2009. The 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held in Dubai during the first weekend of March 2009 and included a separate women's tournament. Cumulative attendance was 78,000. Prior to the inclusion of rugby sevens into the Olympic Games, the IRB stated that their intention would be to end
256-631: Was held at Cape Town Stadium , in Cape Town , South Africa , with Fiji winning the men's tournament and Australia winning the women's tournament. The Rugby World Cup Sevens originated with a proposal by the Scottish Rugby Union to the International Rugby Board . The inaugural tournament was held at Murrayfield in Edinburgh in 1993, and has been held every four years since. England won
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