{"id":467922,"date":"2026-06-09T05:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467922\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:52:18","slug":"fiji-men-and-fijiana-7s-finish-sixth-at-bordeaux-7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467922\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Men and Fijiana 7s finish sixth at Bordeaux 7s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National 7s team finished their Bordeaux 7s campaign in sixth place after a 17-14 defeat to the United States in the fifth-place playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji raced to a 14-0 lead in the first half, with Vuiviawa Naduvalo scoring a double, but were unable to maintain their advantage after the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans responded strongly in the second half, crossing through David Still, Will Chevalier, and Lucas Lacamp to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji ended the World Rugby Sevens Championship in sixth place on 36 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Fijiana 7s side also finished sixth at the Bordeaux 7s after falling 24-12 to France in their fifth-place playoff match.<\/p>\n<p>They finished\u00a0in seventh place with 26 points on\u00a0the Championship standings.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have also qualified for the 2026\/2027 World Rugby 7s Series.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260608085139_media_6a25a9a1ae81f1_64954165.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border-radius: 8px; width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, host France defeated New Zealand 14-5 to claim the men&#8217;s title, and Australia beat New Zealand 26-19 to win the women&#8217;s division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National 7s team finished their Bordeaux 7s campaign in sixth place after a 17-14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[235724,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-467922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bordeaux-7s-photo-rugby-7s","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467922","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=467922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}