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2002 Women's Rugby World Cup

Rugby union event held in Spain

Field	Value
logo	2002 Women's Rugby World Cup Logo 1.webp
other_titles
datefrom	13
dateto	25 May 2002
host	Spain
nations	16
champion
count	2
runnerup
matches	32
tries	170
points	1276
top_scorer	Tammi Wilson (48)
most_tries	Sue Day (9)
prev	[1998](1998-women-s-rugby-world-cup)
next	[2006](2006-women-s-rugby-world-cup)

The 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup was the second World Cup fully sanctioned by the sports governing body the International Rugby Board (IRB). The tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain. The formatThere are 16 teams at the IRB Women's World Cup 2002. They are divided into four Pools of four teams each, according to each team's seeding.

For the first set of matches the highest seeded team plays the lowest seeded team whilst the two mid-seeded teams play each other.

After the first round of matches the positions in each Pool are recalculated with the winners of the first matches in first and second places, and the losers in third and fourth places.

In the second set of matches, the top two teams and the bottom two teams from each Pool play each other. The final Pool standings are calculated from the results of these matches to give the final four positions in each Pool.

The four top teams in each of the Pools go forward to contest the World Cup title. The second placed teams from each Pool play for 5th position (the Plate), the third place teams for 9th (the Bowl), and the fourth placed teams for 13th (the Shield). The four teams in each of these groups are reseeded to decide who plays who at this stage of the tournament.

The two winning teams from each of these 'semi-finals' then face each other in the 'final' whilst the losing teams play each other.From the IRB tournament guide was the same as the previous tournament and again 16 nations competed.

For the first time a pre-tournament qualification match took place to decide Asia's second representative but other than that all competitors took part by invitation. 14 of the 16 teams taking part were the same as in 1998 but two lowest ranked European teams (Sweden and Russia) were replaced by teams from Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Samoa).

The competition was won by defending champions, New Zealand.

Squads

Main article: 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup squads

Match Officials

Referees:

S Cortabarria (Spain)
G De Santis (Italy)
Nicky Inwood (New Zealand)

Qualifier

Competition format

The format was the same as the previous tournament and again 16 nations competed. The teams were divided into four pools of four teams each, according to each team's seeding.

For the first set of matches the highest seeded team played the lowest seeded team while the two mid-seeded teams played each other. After the first round of matches the positions in each pool were recalculated with the winners of the first matches in first and second places, and the losers in third and fourth places. In the second set of matches, the top two teams and the bottom two teams from each pool played each other. The final pool standings were calculated from the results of these matches to give the final four positions in each pool.

The four top teams in each of the pools went forward to contest the World Cup title. The second placed teams from each pool play for 5th position (the Plate), the third place teams for 9th (the Bowl), and the fourth placed teams for 13th (the Shield). The four teams in each of these groups are reseeded to decide who plays who at this stage of the tournament.

The two winning teams from each of these 'semi-finals' then faced each other in the 'final', whilst the losing teams played each other.From the IRB tournament guide

World Cup Tournament

Although not strictly speaking a knock-out as – in theory – a team losing a game on Day 1 could still qualify dependent on results on Day 2, in practice this was a complex tournament that is best understood by means of the following graphics. Note that this should not be taken to imply that the draw for any round of games was predetermined – each successive round was drawn using seedings and rankings based on previous matches:

Cup (positions 1–4)

|13 May 2002 – Pool A||0||117 |13 May 2002 – Pool A||30||0 |13 May 2002 – Pool B||87||0 |13 May 2002 – Pool B||31||12 |13 May 2002 – Pool C||63||9 |13 May 2002 – Pool C||62||0 |13 May 2002 – Pool D||57||0 |13 May 2002 – Pool D||13||3 |17 May 2002 – Pool A||36||3 |17 May 2002 – Pool B||9||21 |17 May 2002 – Pool C||13||5 |17 May 2002 – Pool D||11||0 |20 May 2002 – Semi-final||30||0 |20 May 2002 – Semi-final||53||10 |25 May 2002 – Final||19||9 |25 May 2002 – 3rd Place Final||41||7

Ranking matches 5–8

Teams knocked out in the Cup quarter-finals

|20 May 2002||17||5 |20 May 2002||16||23 |25 May 2002 – 5th Place Final||30||0 |25 May 2002 – 7th Place Final||23||5

Ranking matches 9–16

Teams defeated in the first round of pool matches

|18 May 2002 – Pool A||0||77 |18 May 2002 – Pool C||30||3 |18 May 2002 – Pool D||0||22 |18 May 2002 – Pool B||10||37 |20 May 2002||35||3 |20 May 2002||14||3 |24 May 2002 – 9th Place Final||14||17 |24 May 2002 – 11th Place Final||3||20

Ranking matches 13–16

Teams defeated in the first round of the ranking matches for 9–16

|20 May 2002||0||18 |20 May 2002||37||3 |24 May 2002 – 13th Place Final||0||18 |24 May 2002 – 15th Place Final||19||20

Match details

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Overall ranking

Teams were ranked according to the following criteria:

Most match points
Best points difference (points scored for minus points scored against)
Best tries difference (tries scored for minus tries scored against)
Best penalty kick difference (penalty kicks scored for minus penalty kicks scored against)
Most points scored for
Most tries scored for
Most penalty kicks scored for
Original Tournament seeding.

This resulted in the following ranking:

Play-offs

13th–16th

9th–12th

5th–8th

Semi-finals

Finals

15th/16th

13th/14th

11th/12th

9th/10th

7th/8th

5th/6th

3rd/4th

Con: Estelle Sartini (2) Pen: Estelle Sartini Con: Kelly McCallum

Final

Main article: 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup Final

Pen: Tammi Wilson (3) Drop: Shelley Rae

Final table

Notes

Sources

Rugby World Cup Women’s Stats Archive
Women's Rugby Data

References

"England's world falls apart in final," The Times (London, England) (18 February 2002): p32 via http://womensrugbyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/englands-world-falls-apart-in-final.html
"Experience counts for women," The Times (London, England) (27 May 2002): p26 via http://womensrugbyhistory.blogspot.com/2002/02/experience-counts-for-women.html
"IRB ANNOUNCES FEMALE REFEREE PANELS." States News Service, 20 September 2012. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A302923485/AONE?u=yorku_main&sid=AONE&xid=05d284b3. Accessed 9 November 2018.
"Rugby World Cup Women's Stats Archive".
"Women's Rugby World Cup 2002".

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