After a few years to overlook for Australian rugby, can the boys’s Rugby Sevens crew give Aussie followers one thing to cheer about in Paris?
Discover out as we run by means of every thing you might want to learn about Australia’s males’s Rugby Sevens crew on the 2024 Olympics.
What are Australia’s males’s Rugby Sevens fixtures on the Paris Olympics?
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The lads’s aspect of the Rugby Sevens match on the Paris Olympics really begins earlier than the Video games are formally opened.
The opening ceremony is within the early hours of Saturday July 27 however Australia will play their first sport two days earlier, with the preliminary part beginning on Wednesday July 24-Thursday July 25, shifting into the quarter-finals on Thursday July 25-Friday July 26 earlier than the medallists, and all different remaining placings, are selected Saturday July 27-Sunday July 28.
Late in June, the swimming pools had been confirmed with Australia drawn alongside Argentina, Samoa and Kenya. The draw has not been accomplished but however this web page will probably be up to date as quickly because the fixture listing turns into out there.
Within the meantime, try our complete listing of the scheduled occasions on the Paris Olympics.
Who’s in Australia’s males’s Rugby Sevens squad for the Paris Olympics?
Australia’s males’s squad for the 2024 Video games was formally unveiled on July 3, with a few bombshell inclusions within the type of NRL-bound winger Mark Nawaqanitawase and Brumbies flyer Corey Toole.
Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper, then again, didn’t make the lower and, because of this, introduced he could be bringing down the curtain on his worldwide profession – or, as he put it, on his time with “Australian Rugby”.
Hooper was a part of an 18-player group that took half in a coaching camp in Darwin in late June, as had been Nawaqanitawase and Toole, and it appears the latter two’s earlier Sevens expertise – Nawaqanitawase on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games, Toole within the 2021-2022 world collection – satisfied coach John Manenti to provide them a shot.
There was additionally area for captain Nick Malouf and try-scoring machine Henry Hutchison, who will each make their third look at an Olympic Video games, in addition to veteran playmaker Maurice Longbottom and the versatile Dietrich Roache.
Australia’s males’s Rugby Sevens squad for the Paris Olympics: Henry Hutchison, Ben Dowling, Corey Toole, Dietrich Roache, Mark Nawaqanitawase, Henry Paterson, Hayden Sargeant, James Turner, Matt Gonzalez, Nick Malouf (c), Maurice Longbottom, Nathan Lawson Travelling reserves: Michael Icely, Josh Turner.
Has Australia ever gained a gold medal in males’s Rugby Sevens?
No. The truth is Australia’s males’s Rugby Sevens aspect is but to assert a medal of any color of their two Olympic campaigns to date.
The furthest they’ve reached is the quarter-finals, the place they had been eradicated by South Africa in 2016 and Fiji in 2021.
Australia misplaced to Argentina on the Tokyo Olympics, en path to a quarter-final exit. (Photograph By Brendan Moran/Sportsfile through Getty Photos)
Will Australia win a medal in males’s Rugby Sevens on the Paris Olympics?
The Aussies are completely an opportunity of profitable a medal in Paris, however realistically you’d must label it an outdoor likelihood.
They completed a really creditable fourth within the 2023-24 World Sevens common season standings, earlier than a disappointing remaining match in Madrid noticed them declare seventh spot.
They confirmed glimpses of their finest all through the season, reaching the ultimate in Cape City in late 2023 and Perth earlier this yr.
If they will put in comparable performances in Paris then they’re positively in with a shot, however any slip-ups may very well be deadly to their medal possibilities.
Who’s the favorite to win gold in males’s Rugby Sevens on the 2024 Olympics?
Whereas the ladies’s draw has a really clear high two, the sector is huge open on the boys’s aspect of issues.
Two-time defending champions Fiji regarded manner off their sport this season, ending a scarcely-believable sixth within the common season standings, earlier than recovering some kind with a third-placed end in Madrid.
Argentina had been the shock table-toppers within the 2023-24 common season so that you’d must say they’re a robust likelihood of profitable gold in Paris, however then once more they had been simply forward of Eire, who didn’t even make it out of their group on the Tokyo Olympics.
France are additionally in with a shot at gold, not simply due to house benefit however as a result of they swept all earlier than them to assert the World Sevens title with victory in Madrid lower than two months out from the Olympic match.
Then there’s the previous enemy, New Zealand, who completed third within the common season standings and will probably be determined to avenge their defeat within the Olympic remaining in opposition to Fiji three years in the past.
Which nations have certified for males’s Rugby Sevens on the Olympics?
Pool A
Eire
Japan
New Zealand
South Africa
Pool B
Australia
Argentina
Kenya
Samoa
Pool C
Fiji
France
Uruguay
USA
