Watch every second of the 2026 SVNS World Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nIn doing so, it has rocketed the sides up the World Championship rankings ahead of the final event in France.<\/p>\n
The Women enter on top after their thrilling semi-final win over New Zealand, which flipped the two-point deficit from the opening event in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
It means Australia only has to finish ahead of the Black Ferns to claim the World Championship, drawn to play Japan, Fiji and Brazil.<\/p>\n
If both teams finish the three-leg event with the same points, the Championship will be decided by points difference, with the Kiwis (+289) in a much stronger position than the Aussies (+199).<\/p>\n
This comes off the back of New Zealand’s 50-14 win over Canada, while Australia’s shock loss to the USA in the group stages didn’t help their position.<\/p>\n
For the Men, it’s a much more difficult scenario, needing results to go their way for their first title since 2022-23.<\/p>\n
They sit in third, eight points behind South Africa (38) and four behind Argentina (34).<\/p>\n
Liam Barry’s side can wrap up the title with another event win in Bordeaux and if South Africa finishes sixth or lower and Argentina fourth or lower. Australia (+74) can also claim it if South Africa (+84) finishes fifth if they make up the points difference<\/p>\n
A second place finish shifts the necessary finishes by the other teams down a position, while Fiji, Spain and New Zealand are four points behind Australia and can leapfrog them to finish in the top three.<\/p>\n
Australia will face Spain, the USA and Uruguay in their pool, with South Africa drawing Fiji, Kenya and Great Britain, while Argentina will play New Zealand, France and Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Sevens sides will enter Bordeaux with their World Championship hopes boosted after their dual success in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,125979,40283,760,178643,85,238579],"class_list":["post-713979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-mens-sevens","tag-australian-womens-sevens","tag-rugby","tag-sevens-world-series","tag-sports","tag-svns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}