{"id":320937,"date":"2026-03-09T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:00:09","slug":"fiji-mens-7s-beat-australia-29-10-in-third-place-play-off-at-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320937\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Men&#8217;s 7s beat Australia 29-10 in third place play-off at Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s Nationals 7s side finished in 3rd place at the HSBC SVNS Vancouver 7s after defeating Australia 29-10 in the third place playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Terio Veilawa broke through Australia&#8217;s defence in the third minute of the first half to score Fiji&#8217;s first points, and then\u00a0Vuiviawa Naduvalo crossed over for their second try to lead 14-0.<\/p>\n<p>Australia managed to pull things together and scored twice from Maurice Longbottom and Jayden Blake to close the gap to 14-10 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>George Bose got another one for Fiji as the second half started to extend their lead to 19-10.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Josh Turner and\u00a0Harry Wilson received yellow cards for indiscipline and this gave the Fijians the opportunity to launch their attack.<\/p>\n<p>Nacani Boginisoko and Apete Narogo sealed Fiji&#8217;s win with another two tries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Africa will face Spain in the final at 12.34pm today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s Nationals 7s side finished in 3rd place at the HSBC SVNS Vancouver 7s after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213,172685],"class_list":["post-320937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-7s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320937","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=320937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}