Canada finished third in the women\u2019s tournament after an extra-time try by Olivia Apps secured a 24-19 win over the United States.<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s final, Fiji produced a stirring second-half comeback to overcome a 12-point deficit and beat France.<\/p>\n
The All Blacks Sevens claimed third place after a late try by Michael Manson helped them come from behind to edge South Africa 14-12 in the bronze medal match.<\/p>\n
Fiji beat France for third place in the opening two legs of the 2025\u201326 series in Dubai and Cape Town, but trailed in Singapore after the Europeans took a 12\u20130 half-time lead through tries by Jordan Sepho and Paulin Riva.<\/p>\n
The Fijians hit back in the second half with converted tries from Viwa Naduvalo, Kavekini Tanivanuakula and Pilipo Bukayaro to seal a 21\u201312 win.<\/p>\n
It was their second consecutive victory in Singapore after beating Kenya last year and moved the South Pacific side to the top of the men\u2019s standings on 58 points, four ahead of second-placed New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these kind of games, some people give up, some people have given up, but I would like to thank the boys for working hard and keeping the tempo,\u201d said Fiji captain Jeremaia Matana.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t say that we are the best, but yeah, all the teams are great and … maybe it\u2019s our time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The teams now head to Australia for the next event in the series in Perth next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada finished third in the women\u2019s tournament after an extra-time try by Olivia Apps secured a 24-19 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[150456,85,7022,2741,80136,10541,5904,305,111,139,69,9424,8808,86296,9739,213,124443,2563,61,23838,150457,6027],"class_list":["post-262849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-150456","tag-australia","tag-black","tag-claim","tag-crush","tag-ferns","tag-final","tag-have","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rivals","tag-running","tag-sevens","tag-singapore","tag-sports","tag-thrashed","tag-title","tag-to","tag-tries","tag-trouncing","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}