Singapore becomes 3rd city to host HSBC World Sevens Series
Friday, 17 April 2015 02:57
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By Shamseer Jaleel
Singapore becomes the third Asian country to host the World Rugby Sevens Series starting from 2015-16. Already Tokyo and Hong Kong are in the World Rugby list with the Hong Kong sevens reaching its 40th year in 2015.
The new state-of-the-art national stadium will play host to the world’s top male sevens players ahead of the discipline’s Olympic Games debut at Rio 2016. A major financial and tourism location, Singapore joins Vancouver, Sydney and Cape Town as a new location on the 10-stop series within the next four-year cycle.
Singapore’s inclusion follows a highly competitive tender process featuring 25 global locations with the successful Singapore Rugby Football Union and City of Singapore bid focusing on furthering the growth of rugby across Asia.
With qualification well underway for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the 2014-15 HSBC Sevens World Series has been exceptionally competitive with England’s victory in the Tokyo Sevens at the weekend meaning that there are now just 29 standing points between England in 4th and South Africa in 1st with just four teams progressing to Rio 2016 from the Series.
