After being held at both the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo’s delayed 2021 Games, rugby sevens is back with a bang at Paris 2024 as the best men’s and women’s sides in the sport’s high-octane shortened version head to the Stade de France ahead of this year’s eight-day competition.
Both the men’s and women’s tournaments will feature 12 teams, and 16 nations overall are represented with half of those fielding teams in both editions of the sevens at Paris 2024. Brazil, Canada, China, and most surprisingly of all Great Britain will all be having their sevens flags flown exclusively by their women’s teams.
The USA Eagles team come into the women’s sevens in 2024 as one of the teams most hotly-tipped to take home the gold medal, having massively punched above their weight to qualify via the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series over the course of the last two years. Australia and New Zealand, who took gold in 2016 and 2020 respectively, are undoubtedly the teams to beat.
Hosts France and near-neighbours Great Britain both finished in the top four at the Tokyo Games, with Les Bleus winning the silver medal following a loss to New Zealand in the final, but Great Britain arguably have the most to prove having finished fourth in both 2016 and 2020. Fiji took bronze in Tokyo, but unlike their world-famous men’s team, the Fijiana failed to qualify this time around.
There’s still plenty to get excited for ahead of the women’s rugby sevens tournament at the 2024 Olympics, and The Sporting News has all the details you’ll need to ensure you don’t miss a second of the action.
How to watch women’s rugby sevens at the 2024 Paris Olympics
TV channels: NBC, USA Network, CNBC, E!Streaming: Fubo, Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC app, NBC Olympics app
It’s one of the events in which the US women’s team will certainly hope to be in medal contention, and as such there’s plenty of TV coverage ahead of the rugby sevens at this year’s Olympic Games. Broadcasting of the women’s sevens is being held both live and on catch-up with NBC, USA Network, CNBC and E!
Fans who want to stream the action from the Stade de France have a few options with Peacock and Fubo being your best bet to ensure the best coverage either live or on catch-up, the latter of which are currently offering a FREE trial to new subscribers.
When is women’s rugby sevens at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
Dates: Sunday, July 28 – Tuesday, July 30 2024Venue: Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris
With eight straight days of men’s and women’s rugby coming up from the Paris Games, the women’s competition begins the day after the men’s gold medal is settled, with the group stage starting from 3:30 p.m. local time (CEST) on Sunday, July 28, 2024.
The opening 12 matches will be played across this jam-packed opening day of the women’s tournament, with six more on Monday, July 29 ahead of the knockout stage, which also begins on the same day with the quarterfinals and several placing matches.
Those playoff clashes set up an enthralling final day of action on Tuesday, July 28. The matches to decide who finishes 11th, 9th, 7th and 5th will all be played following the main semifinals, which determine the sides who will be playing in the bronze medal final and gold medal final respectively, which takes place at 7:45 p.m. local time (CEST).
2024 Olympics women’s rugby sevens schedule
DateTime (ET)
subject to changeEventsTV channel / Live streamSunday, July 289:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.Group A, Group B, Group C matches (12)CNBC / Peacock, FuboMonday, July 29
8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Group A, Group B, Group C final matches (6)
9th-12th place semifinals,
Medal playoff quarterfinals
NBC, USA Network / Peacock, Fubo
E! / Peacock, Fubo
Tuesday, July 308:30 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.Medal playoff semifinals, 11th place match, 9th place match, 7th place match, 5th place match, bronze medal match, gold medal match
Semifinals: USA Network / Peacock, Fubo
Bronze/final: E! / Peacock, Fubo
Which teams will play women’s rugby sevens at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
12 teams have qualified for this years Olympic Games in Paris, and will be split across three groups – A, B, and C. Playing each side in their group once, the top two teams head straight into the quarterfinals, and are joined by the two highest-ranked third-placed teams in the respective groups.
The three sides who finish bottom of their groups, plus the unsuccessful third-placed side, enter the playoff matches to decide 9th-12th place, while the four losing quarterfinalists do likewise to decide who finishes from 5th to 7th. The four winners from the last eight head into the semifinals.
In the last four, the two winners head into the gold medal match which brings the curtain down on the women’s tournament, and rugby sevens overall at Paris 2024, with the losing pair playing-off to decide who wins the bronze medal.
The three groups at this year’s Olympics are as follows, listed alphabetically:
Group AGroup BGroup CCanadaAustraliaBrazilChinaGreat BritainFranceNew ZealandIrelandJapanFijiSouth AfricaUnited States
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