The National Rugby Sevens Championship kicked off.
Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, June 2 (Reporter Cao Yibo) On the 2nd, the "Charm Hangzhou" 2023 National Rugby Sevens Championship kicked off at the Cangqian Campus Stadium of Hangzhou Normal University.
The tournament lasted for three days, and was co-sponsored by the National Olympic Sports Center and the Chinese Rugby Association, hosted by Hangzhou Normal University and co-organized by Yuhang District People’s Government. A total of 19 teams (10 men’s teams and 9 women’s teams) participated in the tournament.
During the 50 games, as the rugby venue of the Hangzhou Asian Games, all the events of the stadium in Cangqian Campus of Hangzhou Normal University will be deployed at the level close to the Asian Games in accordance with the Asian Games process to test the progress of the Asian Games preparations and the level of the venue operation team.
Rugby events in the Olympic Games and the Asian Games all adopt the sevens system. Seven people from each side play in the rugby sevens game. The game is divided into the first half and the second half, with 7 minutes in each half and no more than 2 minutes in the intermission. After the start of the game, all players can touch the ball with any part of their bodies, such as catching the ball with their hands or feet, passing the ball, kicking the ball, saving the ball, running with the ball, catching it, shouldering it, and hugging the opposing players with the ball, participating in the group competition for the ball, pressing the ball to touch the ground, etc., but in the game, players can only pass the ball backwards or sideways in parallel, but can’t pass the ball forward, and can’t fall forward when catching the ball.
The China Women’s Rugby Team won the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and the seventh place at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which made the national team the best Olympic result in this event. The best achievement of China men’s rugby team in the Asian Games was the bronze medal in the Doha Asian Games in 2006.
Hangzhou Asian Games rugby sevens will produce two gold medals. (End)
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