Rugby sevens at the 2006 Asian Games

Rugby sevens was contested by nine teams at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar on December 10 and 11. All games played at the Grand Hamad Stadium.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Japan Takeshi Fujiwara Eiji Yamamoto Yuki Okuzono Yusaku Kuwazuru Hiroki Yoshida Takashi Sato Takashi Suzuki Yusuke Kobuki Masahiro Tsuiki Akihito Yamada Hiroki Yamazaki Yohei Shinomiya	South Korea Lee Kwang-moon Yoo Min-hyung Youn Kwon-woo Yang Young-hun Yun Hi-su Kim Hyung-ki Chae Jae-young Kim Jong-su Kwak Chul-woong Chun Jong-man You Young-nam Lee Myung-geun	China He Zhongliang Wang Jiacheng Sun Tao Xu Hui Zhang Zhiqiang Yuan Feng Li Yang Wang Chongyi Lu Zhuan Jiang Xuming Zhang Heng Liu Kai

Qualification

As a limited number of teams could enter, The Asian Rugby Football Union announced 2005 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7's as the qualification event for the eight-team tournament.^[1] But later, they changed the decision and picked host nation Qatar and top 6 teams from 2002 edition, South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Japan, China and Sri Lanka. For the last spot a qualification tournament was held in Hong Kong on 4 February 2006.^[2]^[3]

Rank	Team
1	Hong Kong
2	Malaysia
3	Kazakhstan
4	Singapore

Later they added India to the competition to make it a nine-team tournament.

Draw

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Squads

China	Chinese Taipei	Hong Kong	India
He Zhongliang Wang Jiacheng Sun Tao Xu Hui Zhang Zhiqiang Yuan Feng Li Yang Wang Chongyi Lu Zhuan Jiang Xuming Zhang Heng Liu Kai	Wu Chih-wei Chen Wen-yen Ku Chao-hung Sun Cheng-yen Pan Chih-ming Wang Kuo-feng Chang Wei-cheng Tung Yuan-hsiang Chen Chih-fei Wang Ju-an Wang Jen-hsi Huang Han-yang	Mark Wright Tsang Hing Hung Yuen Kin Ho Li Chi Yung Kenzo Pannell Ricky Cheuk Alex Gibbs Rowan Varty Jeff Wong Keith Robertson Fan Shun Kei Anthony Haynes	Hrishikesh Pendse Amit Lochab Mufaddal Indorewala Pritom Roy Sujai Lama Puneet Krishnamurthy Shailesh Devrukhkar Sendil Kumar Nasser Hussain Bikash Jena Ganesh Sawant Sheikh Saidul
Japan	Qatar	South Korea	Sri Lanka
Takeshi Fujiwara Eiji Yamamoto Yuki Okuzono Yusaku Kuwazuru Hiroki Yoshida Takashi Sato Takashi Suzuki Yusuke Kobuki Masahiro Tsuiki Akihito Yamada Hiroki Yamazaki Yohei Shinomiya	Adel Al-Kathiri Nasser Al-Remaihi Ibrahim Al-Naser Fahid Al-Hamad Abdulaziz Al-Dosari Saleh Al-Sheeb Waleed Al-Maslamani Mohammad Majid Malki Abdulkarem Al-Muhannadi Adnan Abdulla Ali Ali Al-Hitmi Saleh Al-Kuwari	Lee Kwang-moon Yoo Min-hyung Youn Kwon-woo Yang Young-hun Yun Hi-su Kim Hyung-ki Chae Jae-young Kim Jong-su Kwak Chul-woong Chun Jong-man You Young-nam Lee Myung-geun	Anuradha Dharmathilake Chamara Withanage Sajith Mallikarachchi Amjad Buksh Saliya Kumara Fazil Marija Sanjeewa Jayasinghe Dilanka Wijesekara Lalindra Rodrigo Nalaka Weerakkody Ashan Karthelis Ashan de Costa
Thailand
Sayan Kaewmoolmuk Somsak Mitlux Sarayuth Thiengtrong Korrapong Wongsalangkarn Pichit Yingcharoen Tosaporn Mitrak Nantawat Wongwanichslip Patcharapong Samaksaman Warongkorn Khamkoet Kitti Wangkanai Khanthipong Meepin Tanyavit Kuasint

Results

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Preliminary round

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
South Korea	2	2	0	63	7	+56	6
Hong Kong	2	1	1	33	42	−9	4
Thailand	2	0	2	21	68	−47	2

10 December
17:00

South Korea	21–7	Hong Kong
Try: Yun H.S. 6' c Chun J.M. (2) 10' c, 14' c Con: Yun H.S. (3/3)		Try: Wright 7+' c Con: Pannell (1/1)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Takashi Harada (Japan)

10 December
18:45

Thailand	21–26	Hong Kong
Try: Wongsalangkarn 1' c Wongwanichslip (2) 8' c, 14+' c Con: Wongwanichslip (3/3)		Try: Wright 4' c Robertson 7+' c Varty 11' m Cheuk 14+' c Con: Pannell (3/4)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Shi Yongjin (China)

10 December
20:30

South Korea	42–0	Thailand
Try: Chun J.M. (3) 2' c, 5' c, 10' c Kim H.K. 3' c Youn K.W. 7' c Lee K.M. 14' c Con: Chun J.M. (3/3) Yun H.S. (3/3)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Chou Wen-liang (Chinese Taipei)

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
China	2	2	0	72	5	+67	6
Sri Lanka	2	1	1	53	31	+22	4
India	2	0	2	0	89	−89	2

10 December
17:30

China	41–0	India
Try: Li Y. (3) 1' c, 10' c, 11' m Lu Z. (2) 3' m, 14+' m Sun T. 7' c Xu H. 13' m Con: Zhang Z.Q. (2/4) Sun T. (1/2)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Kim Do-suk (South Korea)

10 December
19:15

Sri Lanka	48–0	India
Try: Jayasinghe (3) 3' c, 6' m, 9' c Marija 7+' m Weerakkody (2) 9' m, 13' c de Costa (2) 10' c, 14' m Con: Marija (1/2) Weerakkody (2/4) de Costa (1/1)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Takashi Harada (Japan)

10 December
21:00

China	31–5	Sri Lanka
Try: Sun T. 4' m Li Y. 6' m He Z.L. 9' c Lu Z. (2) 12' c, 14' c Con: Zhang Z.Q. (3/5)		Try: Buksh 4' m

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Tobi Lothian (Great Britain)

Pool C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Japan	2	2	0	82	7	+75	6
Chinese Taipei	2	1	1	89	24	+65	4
Qatar	2	0	2	0	140	−140	2

10 December
18:00

Chinese Taipei	82–0	Qatar
Try: Chen W.Y. 1' c Wang J.A. 2' c Wu C.W. (2) 3' c, 7+' c Wang K.F. (2) 4' c, 11' c Pan C.M. (3) 5' c, 6' c, 13' c Chang W.C. 9' c Wang J.H. 14' m Huang H.Y. 14+' c Con: Chang W.C. (11/12)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Tobi Lothian (Great Britain)

10 December
19:45

Japan	58–0	Qatar
Try: Yamada (5) 1' m, 4' m, 6' m, 10' m, 12' m Kobuki 4' c Suzuki (2) 7+' m, 9' c Tsuiki 10' c Fujiwara 14' c Con: Yoshida (2/6) Kobuki (2/3)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Shi Yongjin (China)

10 December
21:30

Chinese Taipei	7–24	Japan
Try: Chen W.Y. 7' c Con: Chang W.C. (1/1)		Try: Tsuiki 4' m Kuwazuru 10' c Fujiwara 13' m Yoshida 14+' c Con: Yoshida (2/4)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Dilroy Fernando (Sri Lanka)

Summary

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Japan	2	2	0	82	7	+75	6
China	2	2	0	72	5	+67	6
South Korea	2	2	0	63	7	+56	6
Chinese Taipei	2	1	1	89	24	+65	4
Sri Lanka	2	1	1	53	31	+22	4
Hong Kong	2	1	1	33	42	−9	4
Thailand	2	0	2	21	68	−47	2
India	2	0	2	0	89	−89	2
Qatar	2	0	2	0	140	−140	2

Classification 7th–9th

Classification 8th–9th		Classification 7th–8th

December 11

Thailand
		December 11
Bye
		Thailand	29
December 11
		India	0
India	17

Qatar	5

Classification 8th–9th

11 December
17:00

India	17–5	Qatar
Try: Krishnamurthy 3' c Hussain 9' m Jena 11' m Con: Hussain (1/3)		Try: Al-Muhannadi 7' m

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Shi Yongjin (China)

Classification 7th–8th

11 December
19:00

Thailand	29–0	India
Try: Wongwanichslip (4) 3' m, 6' m, 8' c, 12' m Wangkanai 4' c Con: Wongwanichslip (2/5)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Dilroy Fernando (Sri Lanka)

Classification 5th–6th

11 December
19:30

Sri Lanka	5–35	Hong Kong
Try: Jayasinghe 14+' m		Try: Wright 6' c Robertson 7+' c Tsang H.H. 10' c Varty 12' c Wong 14' c Con: Pannell (5/5)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Shi Yongjin (China)

Final round

Semifinals		Gold medal match

11 December

Japan	22
		11 December
Chinese Taipei	7
		Japan	27
11 December
		South Korea	26
China	5

South Korea	19
		Bronze medal match

		11 December

		Chinese Taipei	12

		China	19

Semifinals

11 December
17:30

Japan	22–7	Chinese Taipei
Try: Yoshida 4' m Suzuki (2) 7+' m, 10' c Sato 13' m Con: Yoshida (1/3)		Try: Wang K.F. 14+' c Con: Chang W.C. (1/1)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Tobi Lothian (Great Britain)

11 December
18:00

China	5–19	South Korea
Try: Wang C.Y. 13' m		Try: Lee K.M. 2' m Yang Y.H. 10' c Kwak C.W. 14+' c Con: Yun H.S. (2/3)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Takashi Harada (Japan)

Bronze medal match

11 December
20:00

Chinese Taipei	12–19	China
Try: Tung Y.H. 6' m Pan C.M. 13' c Con: Wang K.F. (1/2)		Try: Wang J.C. 3' c Zhang Z.Q. 14+' m Li Y. 14+' c Con: Zhang Z.Q. (2/3)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Takashi Harada (Japan)

Gold medal match

11 December
20:30

Japan	27–26	South Korea
Try: Yamamoto 7' m Yoshida 10+' m Yamada (2) 13' c, 20+' m Tsuiki 20' m Con: Yoshida (1/5)		Try: Kim J.S. (2) 2' c, 11' m Kwak C.W. 5' c Lee M.G. 15' c Con: Yun H.S. (3/4)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Tobi Lothian (Great Britain)

Final standing

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	Japan	4	4	0
	South Korea	4	3	1
	China	4	3	1
4	Chinese Taipei	4	1	3
5	Hong Kong	3	2	1
6	Sri Lanka	3	1	2
7	Thailand	3	1	2
8	India	4	1	3
9	Qatar	3	0	3

References

^ "News of Asian Games qualifier takes HK by surprise". South China Morning Post. 10 May 2005. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
^ "HK seal Doha trip in style". South China Morning Post. 5 February 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
^ "Hong Kong win Asian Games spot". International Rugby Board. 4 February 2006. Archived from the original on October 24, 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

Official website

[1] "News of Asian Games qualifier takes HK by surprise". South China Morning Post. 10 May 2005. Retrieved 25 December 2013.

[2] "HK seal Doha trip in style". South China Morning Post. 5 February 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2013.

[3] "Hong Kong win Asian Games spot". International Rugby Board. 4 February 2006. Archived from the original on October 24, 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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