![]() ![]() Six teams qualify by finishing first in their respective continental championships - Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia, South America, and North America.Four teams qualify by finishing in the top four in the World Rugby Sevens Series.The host country automatically qualifies. ![]() Twelve rugby teams participate in the men’s and women’s competitions, qualifying through one of the four following routes: During the IRB's presentation at the IOC Session, two IOC members asked why only 12 teams were included: IRB Chief Executive Mike Miller responded "We followed the guidance of the Executive Members of the IOC, but if the IOC feels we should have more teams, we will add more." Qualifying The IRB had originally proposed including 12 teams of each sex, the same number as other team ball sports events. Separate competitions for men and women will be held, using a similar format to the existing IRB Sevens World Series. On 13 August 2009, it was announced that the IOC executive board was recommending rugby sevens for inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games and on 9 October 2009 the full IOC, at its 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, voted to include rugby sevens in the 2016 games. A new system was in place from this session, in which a sport now needs only a simple majority for inclusion, rather than the previous two-thirds majority. May 2009 saw the IRB announce that they would drop the Rugby World Cup Sevens in order to improve the chances of the sport being included: the benefit of this move would be to make the Olympics the premier event in international rugby sevens.Īs well as rugby sevens, baseball and softball (which were dropped from the Olympic programme in 2005), karate, squash, golf and roller sports ( inline speed skating) were all seeking to be included in the 2016 Games and leaders of the seven sports made formal presentations to the IOC executive board in June 2009. In March 2009, Jonah Lomu and Lawrence Dallaglio were announced as ambassadors for the bid, and in April 2009 Waisale Serevi was unveiled as an ambassador to coincide with the Oceania National Olympic Committees' general assembly. The event attracted 78,000 fans over the three days and saw Wales crowned Men’s World Champions, while Australia won the first ever Women's World Cup.Īlong with the World Cup, the IRB enlisted some of rugby’s biggest names to assist in the bid. In March 2009, two senior delegates from the IOC attended the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai at the invitation of the IRB. The final decision was made at the IOC Session in Copenhagen in October 2009: the IRB used a number of high-profile people and events to influence the IOC to include sevens at the 2016 games. Most recently, rugby sevens competed with golf for two available spaces in the 2016 Olympics. However, the selection of two sports out of the five nominees as potential 2012 sports went to squash and karate, as determined by a voting procedure. The IOC stated that no sport would be added unless others were dropped. Rugby sevens was one of five sports - golf, karate, roller sports, rugby, and squash - that submitted a proposal to the IOC at the 117th IOC Session meeting in Singapore in 2005 for inclusion in the 2012 games. The reason given was that two exhibition sports were already picked: American Football and Lacrosse. Hastie Cochrane, was unsuccessful in his bid to get rugby sevens into the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Prior to 2016, 15-a-side matches were played in 1900, 1908, 1920, and 1924.Įfforts to include rugby sevens in the Olympics 1932 bid Ī Scottish man based in Canada, Mr. The champions for the inaugural rugby sevens tournament in 2016 were Fiji for the men and Australia for the women. ![]() Rugby sevens was added to the Olympics following the decision of the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen in October 2009. Rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics was played for the first time at the 2016 Summer Olympics with both men's and women's contests. ![]()
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