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2009 South Africa Sevens

The South Africa Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens. The 2009 competition took place on 11 December and 12 December at Outeniqua Park in George, Western Cape, the second of eight Cup events at the 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series. New Zealand won its second consecutive title by defeating Fiji in the final.

Format

The tournament consists of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progress to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in cup semi-finals and the losers competing in plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in shield semi-finals.

Teams

Pool stages

Pool A

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2009-12-11	****	12–12	****

Pool B

:{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts |- |3||3||0||0||112||19||93||9 |- |3||1||1||1||35||50||-15||6 |- |3||1||0||2||33||83||-50||5 |- |3||0||1||2||38||66||-28||4 |}

2009-12-11	****	31–0

Pool C

:{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts |- |3||3||0||0||60||29||31||9 |- |3||2||0||1||96||34||62||7 |- |3||1||0||2||25||55||-30||5 |- |3||0||0||3||19||82||-63||3 |}

2009-12-11	****	17–10

Pool D

:{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts |- |3||3||0||0||91||26||65||9 |- |3||2||0||1||65||22||43||7 |- |3||1||0||2||50||58||-8||5 |- |3||0||0||3||14||114||-100||3 |}

2009-12-11		19–29	****

Knockout

Shield

|12 December – Outeniqua Park |**** |17 | |22 |12 December – Outeniqua Park |**** |10 | |21 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |33 |**** |0 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||28||17 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |12 | |35 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||21||26 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |28 | |19

Bowl

|12 December – Outeniqua Park | |17 |**** |22 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |10 |**** |21 |12 December – Outeniqua Park |**** |33 | |0 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||28||17 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |24 | |5 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||24||7 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |5 | |14

Plate

|12 December – Outeniqua Park | |24 |**** |12 |12 December – Outeniqua Park |**** |19 | |22 |12 December – Outeniqua Park |**** |19 | |26 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |21 |**** |17 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |5 |**** |24 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||7||10 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |21 | |7

Cup

|12 December – Outeniqua Park ||24||12 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||19||22 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||19||26 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||21||17 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |14 |**** |17 |12 December – Outeniqua Park ||14||19 |12 December – Outeniqua Park | |21 | |12

Statistics

Individual points

Pos.	Player	Points
1	William Ryder	67
2	Ben Gollings	55
3	Mike Adamson	53
4	Lavin Asego	38
5	Mzwandile Stick	36
6	Christian Wade	35
7	Joaquin Todeschini	33
8	Sherwin Stowers	32
9	Collins Injera	30
10	Diogo Miranda	28

Individual tries

Pos.	Player	Tries
1	William Ryder	7
2	Christian Wade	7
3	Collins Injera	6
4	Sherwin Stowers	6
5	Mike Adamson	5
6	Renauld Delmas	5
7	Ben Gollings	5
8	Zar Lawrence	5
9	Andrew Turnbull	5
10	Cecil Afrika	4

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