Semi-Finals Confirmed for Youth Olympic Games Men’s Rugby Sevens

	www.irb.com		19 August 2014
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The semi-final line-up has been confirmed for the men’s Rugby Sevens competition at the Youth Olympic Games.

This morning’s final pool phase determined the final rankings from which the play-offs have been determined and it went down to the wire.

Argentina confirmed their top seed place with a 26-0 win over USA, which also confirmed USA's sixth place in the final pool standings.

France secured second place with a 28-7 win over Japan and Kenya's 17-12 victory over Fiji created a three-way-tie for the two remaining semi-final places.

With the tournament rules stipulating that points difference would determine the results in the event of such a situation, it was Fiji who secured third place and Kenya edged out Japan to claim the final semi-final place.

The 5th place play-off will be contested between Japan and USA.

Final pool standings
1 Argentina 15 pts
2 France 13 pts
3 Fiji 9 pts
4 Kenya 9 pts
5 Japan 9 pts
6 USA 5 pts

Semi-finals
Argentina v Kenya (18:00)
France v Fiji (18:30)

Placing 5-6
Japan v USA (16:00)

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notes

Nations contest round robin matches in the pool rounds and play each other once. The top four teams proceed to the semi-finals in the knockout competition with the fifth and sixth placed teams playing for position.

The winners of the semi-finals proceed to the gold medal match and the losers to the bronze medal match.

The teams were confirmed and ratified by the IRB following a qualification process based on the Rugby World Cup Sevens 2013 rankings and the selection of participating team sports by the respective National Olympic Committees.

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