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2015 Oceania Sevens Championship

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Host nation
  
New Zealand

Champions
  
Australia

Third
  
Samoa

Date
  
14–15 November 2015

Runners-up
  
Tonga

Champions
  
Cook Islands

The 2015 Oceania Sevens Championship was the eighth Oceania Sevens. It was held in Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand on 14–15 November 2015. As well as determining the regional championship, the tournament was also a qualifying event for the 2016 Olympics sevens, with the highest-placed eligible team gaining a direct berth to Rio de Janeiro.

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Australia won the tournament, defeating Tonga 50–0 in the final. The second and third place getters Tonga and Samoa received invitations to the final qualification tournament. Fiji and New Zealand did not participate in the 2015 Oceania Sevens as they had already qualified for the 2016 Olympics.

Teams

Participating nations for the 2015 tournament are:

Pool stage

All times are New Zealand Daylight Time, i.e. UTC+13.

Final standings

Tonga and Papua New Guinea also qualified to the 2016 Hong Kong Sevens World Series qualifier.

References

2015 Oceania Sevens Championship Wikipedia