Canadian rugby women down France at Singapore 7s, finish 3rd in consecutive weeks

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 06, 2025 12:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Tries by Carissa Norsten, Shalaya Valenzuela and Fancy Bermudez lifted Canada to a 21-5 triumph implicit France astatine the HSBC SVNS Singapore connected Sunday arsenic the Canadian women finished 3rd for the 2nd week successful a enactment connected the top-tier rugby sevens circuit.

Breanne Nicholas converted each 3 tries for Canada, which conceded a precocious people by Lea Trollier.

Canada, which bushed France 21-17 successful the third-place crippled successful Hong Kong past week, stands 4th successful the women's play standings aft six events. The French are 3rd down Australia and Series person New Zealand.

The Canadian women finished eighth successful Dubai, 5th successful Cape Town, 4th successful Perth and seventh successful Vancouver earlier the 2 third-place finishes. France finished 3rd successful Dubai, Cape Town and Perth.

After topping its excavation with wins implicit No. 6 Britain (14-5) and the eight-ranked U.S. (31-12), the Canadians were beaten 45-7 by Australia successful the Cup semifinal earlier Sunday. Eden Kilgour scored the lone effort for Canada, which trailed 24-0 astatine the half.

New Zealand past defeated Australia 31-7 to triumph the Singapore event, adding to tourney victories successful Cape Town, Vancouver and Hong Kong and runner-up finishes to Australia successful Dubai and Perth.

Australia's Maddison Levi became the fastest pistillate to surpass 200 tries, ending the play with 203 scores to her sanction including 1 successful the final, which took her past Charlotte Caslick arsenic Australia's apical try-scorer successful finals with 15.

Double Olympic champions Fiji won the men's lawsuit successful Singapore, downing Kenya 21-12. After 3 successive tourney victories, Argentina's men had to settee for bronze via a 33-14 comeback triumph implicit Spain aft trailing 14-0.

Singapore, the penultimate lawsuit of the season, decided the 2025 regular play winners with the New Zealand women and Argentina men confirmed arsenic 2025 League victors connected Day 1 astatine Singapore National Stadium.

The apical 8 men's and women's teams present caput to Dignity Health Sports Park successful Carson, Calif., to vie successful the winner-take-all May 3-4 season-ending satellite championship.

The men's teams moving connected are Argentina, Fiji, Spain, South Africa, France, New Zealand, Australia and Britain. The confirmed women's teams are Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, France, Fiji, the U.S. and Japan.

Canada volition play successful Pool A with New Zealand, Japan and Britain.

The California finale volition besides diagnostic a promotion/relegation playoff involving the apical 4 men's and women's teams from the second-tier HSBC Sevens Challenger and the bottommost 4 teams connected the HSBC SVNS circuit.

The Canadian men, relegated past June, are acceptable to instrumentality portion successful the last Challenger Series lawsuit April 11-12 successful Krakow, Poland. They presently apical the Challenger Series.