Canada Win Bronze in Singapore: Finish 4th in Series Standings
Canada finished 3rd in Singapore, losing to Australia in the Cup semi-finals but defeating France in the 3rd place playoff. Canada finish the series in 4th as they prepare for the championship tournament in LA in May. The teams going to the relegation tournament are Brazil, China, Ireland and Spain.
The Canada men are hoping to be in LA as well in the relegation tournament, the men’s teams from the series who will also be in the relegation tournament are Kenya, Uruguay, Ireland and USA.
Canada 21 – France 5
Scorers: Carissa Norsten (1T), Shalaya Valenzuela (1T), Fancy Bermudez (1T), Breanne Nicholas (3C)
Canada 7 – Australia 45
Scorers: Eden Kilgour (1T), Taylor Perry (1C)
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Fiji and New Zealand win HSBC SVNS Singapore
Fiji men and New Zealand women claimed the HSBC SVNS Singapore titles at the sixth and final regular season round of HSBC SVNS 2025
- Fiji men and New Zealand women win HSBC SVNS Singapore titles
- Fiji come from behind to beat Kenya 21-12 for gold while Argentina beat Spain for bronze
- New Zealand overcome Australia 31-7 in women’s final as Canada claim bronze
- New Zealand women and Argentina men retained their status as HSBC SVNS 2025 League Winners on Saturday
- Pools announced for HSBC SVNS World Championship in Los Angeles on 3-4 May, featuring the top eight ranked men’s and women’s teams
- Final round of World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger takes place in Krakow on 11-12 April
Fiji men and New Zealand women claimed the HSBC SVNS Singapore titles on Sunday at the sixth and final regular season round of HSBC SVNS 2025, which saw New Zealand women and Argentina men retain their titles as SVNS League Winners following results on Saturday at Singapore National Stadium.
Double Olympic champions Fiji had to dig deep to overturn a half time deficit against an indomitable Kenya side whose only previous Series title came in Singapore in 2016. Kenya took a first half lead through Nygel Pettersan Amatisa, but a second half hattrick of tries with a brace from Viwa Naduvalo and one from Rauto Vakadranu turned to final in Fiji’s favour and they ran out 21-12 winners despite a late consolation try from Kenya’s William Mwanji Indakalu.
HSBC Player of the Final Viwa Naduvalo said: “Thanks to my teammates for giving 100% effort. We ended up with the win.”
Fiji’s Tira Wilag Pattersoni said: “The Kenyan team was coming very hard, they are a good side and very physical. It was so tough.”
New Zealand were quickest out of the blocks in an exciting women’s final with first half tries from Michaela Brake and Risi Pouri-Lane. Australia replied through the unstoppable Maddison Levi before the break but further second half tries from Jazmin Felix-Hotham, Kelsey Teneti and a second for Brake saw New Zealand finish comfortable 31-7 winners.
HSBC Player of the Final Risi Pouri-Lane said: “It’s been an awesome couple of weeks for us. They (Australia) are full of talent and the girls are still young.It is awesome to come up against them because we know they are always going to bring it to us.”
Winning captain Sarah Hirini said she was “stoked for this group. Everyone knows when you win the title and win the tournament at the same time it’s an even greater feeling,” Hirini added. “We all love what we do. We know how grateful we are to be in this position.”
Brake explained what is behind their winning mentality: “When it comes to training it’s almost like we’re playing against another country and every training that we do at home and we try to continue that pressure and competitive each day. When it comes playing on the World Series we bring that same competitive nature against other countries.”
Australia’s Maddison Levi continued her record breaking form since being named World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year 2024 as the 22 year old became the fastest woman to surpass 200 tries, ending the weekend with 203 scores to her name including one in the final, which took her past Charlotte Caslick as Australia’s top try scorer in finals with 15.
After three successive tournament victories Argentina’s men had to settle for bronze in Singapore, which they secured thanks to a 33-14 victory over Spain, coming back from two tries down. Canada claimed the women’s bronze with a convincing 21-5 defeat of France.
The women’s semi-finals were both one-sided affairs as Australia thrashed Olympic silver medallists Canada 45-7 while New Zealand swept aside France by a 40-14 scoreline.
To reach their first final since Vancouver 2021, Kenya saw off a second half Spanish fightback to record a hard earned 12-5 and delight their vocal contingent of fans in the large finals day crowd inside the 55,000 capacity Singapore National Stadium.
Fiji overcame SVNS League Winners Argentina 33-24 in a thrilling and action-packed semi-final to book their place in the cup final.
The final HSBC SVNS 2025 standings see Argentina finish as men’s league winners for the second successive year with 104 points, finishing 8 and 16 points ahead of Fiji and the consistently impressive Spain in second and third respectively.
In the women’s standings New Zealand’s Black Ferns Sevens retained their league winners title with 116 points having won four of the six rounds. They finished with a ten point margin over rivals Australia in second place. France finished third on 80 points with Olympic silver medallists Canada in fourth and Japan in fifth position.
Attention now turns to the highly anticipated HSBC SVNS World Championship 2025 in Los Angeles on 3-4 May. The winner-takes-all season finale takes place in the Dignity Health Sports Park – the LA 2028 Olympic venue for rugby sevens – and features the top eight ranked men’s and women’s teams competing to be crowned HSBC SVNS 2025 Champions.
The pools, which are based on rankings, were confirmed at the conclusion of the event in Singapore. The World Championship competition format involves two pools of four teams each with the top two teams in each pool reaching the semi-finals.
Women’s pool A see Olympic champions New Zealand together with silver medallists Canada, as well as Japan and Great Britain. Australia are in pool B with France, the hosts and Olympic bronze medallists USA and Fiji.
In men’s pool A SVNS league winners Argentina will face South Africa, Olympic champions France and Great Britain. Singapore victors Fiji are in pool B with Spain, Australia and New Zealand.
Two-time Rugby World Cup winner and three-time World Rugby Player of the Year Dan Carter was in attendance in Singapore where he commented on the upcoming HSBC SVNS World Championship event: “I like it. In the rugby calendar it’s nice to have something to work towards and then high-pressure situations. You see it in a lot of other sports as well; you compete in a series and then you have your champion at the end and then you go into a finals series. It just brings that element of edge and excitement and things can happen.
“Look at last year, how dominant Argentina was throughout the Series and then France, they just came and were victorious in Madrid. Once again, Argentina have dominated and it doesn’t guarantee that they’re going to go to LA and win. It’s all on the line and I’m really enjoying the format of the Series.”
The teams placed ninth to twelfth in the HSBC SVNS 2025 rankings will also be in action in Los Angeles, joining the top four ranked teams from the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger in the Play Off competition.
CHALLENGER POOLS AND SCHEDULE >>
The third and final round of the Challenger takes place in Krakow, Poland on 11-12 April. The eight men’s teams competing in Krakow are Germany, Canada, Portugal, Chile, Samoa, Japan, Madagascar and Tonga. The women’s teams are Kenya, South Africa, Argentina, Colombia, Thailand, Czechia, Poland and Belgium.
Canada Complete Day 1 with Wins over USA and Great Britain: Face Australia in Semi-Finals
The Canadian women used aggressive defence to secure two wins on Day 1 of the Singapore 7s and earn a semi-final matchup against Australia. NZ and France will meet in the other semi-final. The top 4 finish guarantees Canada 4th place in the final standings going into the championship tournament in LA.
Canada 31 – USA 21
Scorers: Fancy Bermudez (2T), Breanne Nicholas (1T, 3C), Sabrina Poulin (1T), Carissa Norsten (1T)
Canada 14 – Great Britain 5
Scorers: Carissa Norsten (1T), Olivia Apps (1T), Breanne Nicholas (2C)
CANADA’S WOMEN’S SEVENS TEAM ROSTER
3. Vanessa Chiappetta (Rigaud, QC) – University of Victoria / Westshore RFC
4. Breanne Nicholas (Blenheim, ON) – Kent Havoc RFC
6. Charity Williams (Toronto, ON) – Markham Irish / University of British Columbia
7. Florence Symonds (Vancouver, BC) – University of British Columbia
8. Carmen Izyk (High River, AB) – Foothills Lions / Queen’s University / RCTPM
9. Olivia Apps (Lindsay, ON) – Lindsay RFC
10. Fancy Bermudez (Edmonton, AB) – NorWester Athletic Association / Westshore RFC / Saracens
14. Eden Kilgour (Barrie, ON) – Westshore RFC
18. Julia Omokhuale (Calgary, AB) – Calgary Irish / Leicester Tigers
19. Carissa Norsten (Waldheim, SK) – Kirin RFC / University of Victoria
22. Sabrina Poulin (St-Georges, QC) – Town of Mount Royal RFC / Exeter Chiefs
27. Olivia Sarabura (Guelph, ON) – University of British Columbia
29. Mahalia Robinson (Fulford, QC) – Town of Mount Royal RFC
40. Taylor Perry (Oakville, ON) – Oakville Crusaders / Exeter Chiefs
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New Zealand and Argentina HSBC SVNS League Winners on day one in Singapore
New Zealand women and Argentina men confirmed HSBC SVNS 2025 League Winners after reaching semi-finals on exciting first day in Singapore
- New Zealand women and Argentina men confirmed HSBC SVNS 2025 League Winners after reaching HSBC SVNS Singapore semi-finals
- New Zealand face France while Canada play Australia in Sunday’s women’s semi-finals
- Kenya delight fans to reach first men’s semi-final since 2018, where they play Spain, while Argentina take on Fiji
- Results see Fiji and Great Britain women qualify for HSBC SVNS World Championship in Los Angeles to complete tournament line-up
Singapore finals day begins at 10:00 (GMT+8) on Sunday, with the semi-finals from 13:45 and the women’s and men’s finals at 19:05 and 19:41 respectively
Women’s Olympic champions New Zealand and reigning men’s HSBC SVNS league title holders Argentina confirmed their status as the world’s leading rugby sevens teams after sealing the HSBC SVNS 2025 League Winners titles on day one at Singapore National Stadium.
The Black Ferns Sevens secured the top-four finish they required at the sixth and final regular season round of HSBC SVNS 2025 thanks to a pair of convincing victories over China and Brazil, scoring 86 points without reply to top Pool A and secure their place in Sunday’s semi-finals in style.
Argentina were made to work hard for the men’s league title, having lost their opening pool A match 26-24 to South Africa in an end-to-end thriller, they bounced back to beat Great Britain 19-12 and claim their place in Sunday’s semi-finals and in doing so, clinch the SVNS league title.
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With the competition format in Singapore splitting the 12 teams in to four pools of three teams each, only the top-ranked side in each pool would qualify for the semi-finals, while the others were left to battle it out in Sunday’s ranking play-offs.
The Black Ferns Sevens will face France while Olympic silver medallists Canada play Australia in the other women’s semi-final. Meanwhile other results in the women’s competition on day one saw Great Britain and Fiji secure their places in the HSBC SVNS World Championship in Los Angeles on 3-4 May at the expense of Brazil, completing the line-up for the highly anticipated winner-takes-all event.
New Zealand vice-captain Risi Pouri-Lane said: “There’s definitely an element of relief but in a way that we’re so hard on ourselves to perform and to come out here in every tournament and put on a show for everybody and ourselves.
“Everyone here, we work hard to be in those kind of moments so it is relief but also just an overwhelming sense of joy knowing that the whole squad that’s behind us that put us in a position to be here in those moments.
“We’re our harshest critics. We always strive for more, we always want more, and we always think that we haven’t actually reached our potential. There’s pros and cons to that because we’re so hard on ourselves but the pros to that is we’re always striving for greatness.”
In the men’s competition Kenya are through to their first semi-final on the HSBC SVNS Series in seven years after beating both Ireland and Olympic champions France on Saturday. The Shujaa hadn’t made the final four since the Hong Kong Sevens in 2018, where they went one further by reaching the Cup Final. Kenya will have to overcome an impressive Spain in the semi-final, while Argentina take on Fiji in what promises to be a classic encounter.
Argentina player Tobias Wade commented on the league title: “It’s pretty awesome. The team after the Olympics maintained completely the same guys so we tried to get an effort to train hard and try to repeat what we did last year. We worked really hard to do this again. The league is awesome, it’s a great prize for us because it is the whole year for us being competitive. It’s very important. Tomorrow we are playing semi-finals so we have to get our body recovered.”
Kenya’s Nygel Pettersan Amaitsa, who kicked a winning penalty against France to secure Kenya’s first semi-final since 2018 said: “Through the Challenger Series we always thought that we were the best so coming to the HSBC SVNS, our first season, we just had to prove that we can be here.
“When we go to the changing room after the Ireland match, we just had to defeat France, we never had an option because we had to play our best and the results came.”
The eight men’s teams who will compete in the HSBC SVNS World Championship in Los Angeles are confirmed as Argentina, Fiji, Spain, South Africa, France, New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain. The women’s teams will be New Zealand, Australia, France, USA, Canada, Japan, Fiji and Great Britain.