Rugby sevens at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Rugby sevens – Men's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Rugby sevens – Men's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	Exhibition Stadium
Dates	July 11 – July 12
Competitors	96 from 8 nations
Medalists
	Canada
	Argentina
	United States
	«2011 2019»

The men's rugby sevens tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada was held at the Exhibition Stadium from July 11 to 12.^[1]

For the 2015 Pan American Games, the men's rugby sevens competition consisted of an 8-team tournament. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. All eight teams advanced to the knockout round.^[2]

Canada are the defending champions from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, defeating Argentina, 26–24 in the final.

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams have qualified to compete at the games. Host nation Canada, Argentina and the United States qualified automatically. The top team at the 2014, and top two at the 2015 South American Championships also qualified. The top two teams at the North American and Caribbean Championships in 2015 also qualified. Each nation may enter one team consisting of twelve athletes.^[2]

Summary

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Canada
Qualified automatically	—	—	2	Argentina United States
2014 South American Games	March 8–9	Santiago	1	Uruguay
2014 NACRA Sevens	December 3–4	Mexico City	2	Guyana Mexico
2015 Mar del Plata Sevens	January 10–11	Mar del Plata	2	Brazil Chile
Total			8

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Canada Sean White Admir Cejvanovic Mike Fuailefau John Moonlight Conor Trainor Sean Duke Phil Mack Justin Douglas Nathan Hirayama Lucas Hammond Harry Jones Matthew Mullins	Argentina Fernando Luna Santiago Alvarez German Schulz Nicolas Bruzzone Emiliano Boffelli Gastón Revol Bautista Ezcurra Rodrigo Etchart Franco Sabato Juan Tuculet Ramiro Finco Axel Muller Aranda	United States Carlin Isles Patrick Blair Brett Thompson Garrett Bender Mike Te'o Stephen Tomasin Will Holder Ben Leatigaga Nate Augspurger Madison Hughes Perry Baker Martin Iosefo

Rosters

At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had up to 12 players on their rosters.^[2]

Competition format

In the first round of the competition, teams were divided into two groups of four teams, and play followed a round robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the pool once. Teams were awarded three points for a win, two points for a draw and one point for a loss. All ties in the standings will be broken by point differential^[2]

Following the completion of the group games, all eight teams advanced to a single elimination round consisting of four quarterfinal games, two semifinal games, and the bronze and gold medal matches. Losing teams competed in classification matches to determine their ranking in the tournament. A penalty stroke competition took place, if a classification matched ended in a draw to determine a winner.^[2]

All games were played in two 7 minute halves, except the gold medal match which was played with 10-minute halves.^[2]

Draw

The draw for the groups was determined using the 2014–15 Sevens World Series standings.^[2]

Results

The official detailed schedule was revealed on June 9, 2015.^[3]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

The Direct Energy Centre (Exhibition Centre), was the venue for the men's rugby sevens competition

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
United States	3	3	0	126	7	+119	9	Qualified for the quarterfinals
Uruguay	3	2	1	54	69	−15	7
Chile	3	1	2	62	46	+16	5
Mexico	3	0	3	0	120	−120	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

11 July 2015
11:11

United States	26–7	Chile
	Report

Semifinals		Fifth place

July 12 — Toronto

Guyana	0
		July 12 — Toronto
Chile	31
		Chile	12
July 12 — Toronto
		Brazil	7
Brazil	14

Mexico	7
		Seventh place

		July 12 — Toronto

		Guyana	26

		Mexico	22

Semifinals		Final

July 12 — Toronto

United States	19
		July 12 — Toronto
Canada	26
		Argentina	19
July 12 — Toronto
		Canada	22
Argentina	43

Uruguay	7
		Third place

		July 12 — Toronto

		United States	40

		Uruguay	12

Rank	Team	Record
	Canada	5–1
	Argentina	5–1
	United States	5–1
4	Uruguay	3–3
5	Chile	3–3
6	Brazil	2–4
7	Guyana	1–5
8	Mexico	0–6

Rugby sevens at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Qualification

Summary

Medalists

Rosters

Competition format

Draw

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Quarterfinals

Classification round

Fifth through Eighth places

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Medal round

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

References