{"id":716710,"date":"2026-06-05T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716710\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:13:09","slug":"live-australia-sevens-hunt-for-world-championships-in-bordeaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716710\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Australia Sevens hunt for World Championships in Bordeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Australia Sevens teams are out to replicate their Spanish success as the World Championship reaches its finale in Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Both sides took out the crown in Valladolid and sit in the top three of the three-leg World Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2026 SVNS World Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Women open the tournament against Brazil (8:36pm AEST), with Amahli Hala replacing Tia Hinds (calf), with Maddison Levi named despite a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Men will start their campaign against Uruguay (10:22pm AEST), welcoming back Jayden Blake as he fills in for Dietrich Roache (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Liam Barry&#8217;s side will start the tournament without James Turner, suspended for the pool stages after a red card in the Final.<\/p>\n<p>Follow a recap of all the action, game by game, below:<\/p>\n<p>Australia Women v Brazil Women<\/p>\n<p>Australia Women\u2019s Sevens team for 2026 HSBC SVNS World Championships Bordeaux:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">2. Amahli Hala \u2013 8 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">3. Faith Nathan \u2013 40 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">5. Teagan Levi \u2013 32 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">6. Madison Ashby (c) \u2013 33 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">8. Kaitlin Shave \u2013 14 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">10. Isabella Nasser (c) \u2013 25 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">11. Demi Kennewell \u2013 31 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">12. Maddison Levi \u2013 35 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">13. Heidi Dennis \u2013 14 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">15. Kahli Henwood \u2013 13 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">22. Bienne Terita \u2013 23 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">55. Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea \u2013 18 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">65. Sariah Paki \u2013 43 events<\/p>\n<p>Australia Men&#8217;s Sevens team for 2026 HSBC SVNS World Championships for Bordeaux:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">1. Henry Hutchison (c) \u2013 67 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">2. Ben Dowling \u2013 28 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">3. James McGregor \u2013 10 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">7. Josh Turner \u2013 45 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">10. Ben Dalton \u2013 17 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">11. Maurice Longbottom \u2013 53 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">13. Jayden Blake \u2013 12 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">14. James Turner \u2013 26 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">23. Aden Ekanayake \u2013 15 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">24. Ethan McFarland \u2013 8 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">33. Harry Wilson \u2013 8 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">49. Archie Saunders \u2013 4 events<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">77. Wallace Charlie \u2013 9 events<\/p>\n<p>HSBC SVNS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BORDEAUX SCHEDULE<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">AUSTRALIA WOMEN<\/p>\n<p>Friday 5 June: Australia v Brazil (8:36pm AEST)Saturday 6 June: Australia v Fiji (1:51am AEST)Saturday 6 June: Australia v Japan (9:54pm AEST)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">AUSTRALIA MEN<\/p>\n<p>Friday 5 June: Australia v Uruguay (10:22pm AEST)Saturday 6 June: Australia v USA (3:52am AEST)Saturday 6 June: Australia v Spain (6:22pm AEST)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australia Sevens teams are out to replicate their Spanish success as the World Championship reaches its finale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,125979,40283,44,178643],"class_list":["post-716710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-mens-sevens","tag-australian-womens-sevens","tag-news","tag-sevens-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716710","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=716710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}