2016 FISU World University Rugby 7s Championship

[victorsra]

Swansea (Wales) will receive this year's FISU World University Rugby 7s Championship. The matches will run from Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th.

Women's tournament:
Group A: Great Britain, France, Japan, New Zealand and Italy
Group B: Canada, China, Austrália, Spain and Portugal


Schedule: http://wucrugby2016.com/championship-schedule.htm

List of champions:
2015 - Canada

2014 – Canada

2012 – Great Britain

2010 – Spain

2008 – Spain

2006 – Canada

2004 – Canada

[Canalina]

Italian team seems strong, with some of the best girls of the XV national squad like Stefan, Sillari, Magatti and Rigoni.
However from a certain point of view this is not a good symptom because the presence of the same names in all the selections (XV, 7s, university) indicates scarce depth in the basin of players.

Why there's a 2015 champion, Victorsra? I don't remember it, FISU says that the championships are biennial and that the last edition was in 2014.

Curiously, in the incoming weekend there will be three important events of minor rugby codes and all three will be in south-western Great Britain: the World University Championship in Swansea, the European men 7s stage in Exeter and the European Touch Championship in Jersey. As Italy we will have five national teams involved
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[Armchair Fan]

Spanish squad: Carlota Meliz, Anna Ramón y Alexandra Castillón (INEF Barcelona), Isabel Macías y Sabina Hurtado (Olímpico de Pozuelo), Lourdes Alameda y Marina Galán (XV Sanse Scrum), Ana Vila y Nuria Yurrita (Complutense Cisneros), Nerea Aguirre (Getxo Artea), Enara Cacho (Hernani CRE) y Raquel García (Sitges). Seleccionadora: Isabel Rodríguez ‘Cape’

http://ferugby.es/noticias2.php?titulo= ... versitario

[johnbirch]

Curiously, in the incoming weekend there will be three important events of minor rugby codes and all three will be in south-western Great Britain: the World University Championship in Swansea, the European men 7s stage in Exeter and the European Touch Championship in Jersey. As Italy we will have five national teams involved
https://s31.postimg.org/gqfaantor/image.png

To be slightly pedantic, Jersey isn't in Great Britain, geographically or politically. Its a Crown Dependency, like the Falklands (more or less)

[Canalina]

In the little world of italian rugby there's a debate about the victory of italian women 7s university team against New Zealand, celebrated also by the mainstream newspapers as "the first ever victory of an italian team against the All Blacks". At the eyes of many fans this NZ team seemed quite poor and the match against Italy constellated by many hand mistakes. Do someone of you know if this was really the best NZ university team?

[victorsra]

FINAL: France 31-05 Canada.

Final Standings: 1 France, 2 Canada, 3 Japan, 4 Portugal, 5 Great Britain, 6 Italy, 7 China, 8 Spain, 9 New Zealand , 10 Australia (what a hell of teams NZ and AUS sent???)

List of champions:
2016 – France
2015 – Canada
2014 – Canada
2012 – Great Britain
2010 – Spain
2008 – Spain
2006 – Canada
2004 – Canada

[johnbirch]

In the little world of italian rugby there's a debate about the victory of italian women 7s university team against New Zealand, celebrated also by the mainstream newspapers as "the first ever victory of an italian team against the All Blacks". At the eyes of many fans this NZ team seemed quite poor and the match against Italy constellated by many hand mistakes. Do someone of you know if this was really the best NZ university team?

Australia and New Zealand do call players into their national squads at a younger age than most other teams - but their university squads for WUC included no national squad members.

So at a guess, no, these were not the best possible NZ/AUS university squads, but they probably were the best players from outside the national squads.