The 2022–23 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the tenth edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. New Zealand won the series at the last event in Toulouse, taking out six of the seven events on the tour to claim their seventh World Series title with Australia and the United States placing second and third, respectively. The series doubled as a qualifier for the 2024 Olympic Sevens, so those three teams along with host country France, who finished fourth in the series, and Ireland, who finished fifth, all gained direct qualifying berths for the women's tournament held in Paris in 2024.
Core teams The core teams qualified to participate in all tournaments for 2022–23 were:
Great Britain
Japan was promoted to core team status by winning the 2022 Challenger Series. A combined Great Britain team replaced England as a core team for the series.
Tour venues The schedule for the series was:
+ 2022–23 ItineraryLegStadiumCity DatesWinner Dubai The Sevens Stadium Dubai 2–3 December 2022 South Africa DHL Stadium Cape Town 9–11 December 2022 New Zealand FMG Stadium Waikato Hamilton 21–22 January 2023 Australia Allianz Stadium Sydney 27–29 January 2023 Canada BC Place Vancouver 3–5 March 2023 Hong Kong Hong Kong Stadium Hong Kong 31 March – 2 April 2023 France Stade Ernest-Wallon Toulouse 12–14 May 2023
Standings
The final standings after completion of the seven tournaments of the series are shown in the table below.
The points awarded to teams at each tournament, as well as the overall season totals, are shown. Gold indicates the event champions. Silver indicates the event runner-ups. Bronze indicates the event third place finishers.
Final standings for the 2022–23 series:
+ 2022–23 World Rugby – Women's Series X Pos. Dubai Cape Town Hamilton Sydney Vancouver Hong Kong Toulouse Pointstotal Pointsdifference118202020202020138+1093220181612181816118+89831616181616818108+624 1412 81814121492+1925 10141414 661074–226 12 8 6101214668+517 Great Britain 6 1012 8 816868–368 3 210 6 4 31240–1839 4 6 2 41010 339–14710 8 3 4 2 3 4 428–35911 1 4 3 3 2 2 116–48312 2——————2–5014 ——————22–13113 ——11———2–42415 —1—————1–9416 ———— — 1—1–13217 ————1——1–192 Source: World Rugby
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:92%;" |- !colspan=2| Legend |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 align=center |Event Medalists |- |bgcolor=#FFD700|Gold |Event Champions |- |bgcolor=#C0C0C0|Silver |Event Runner-ups |- |bgcolor=#CD7F32|Bronze |Event Third place finishers |- |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 style="text-align:center; color:#555;"|Qualification for the 2024 Olympic Sevens |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #06d;"| Qualified as one of the four highest-placed eligible teams in the 2022–23 World Sevens Series |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #7cf;"| Automatically qualified (host country France) |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 style="text-align:center; color:#555;"|Qualification for the 2023–24 World Sevens Series |- |style="width:4.5em;"|No colour |Core team and re-qualified as a core team for the 2023–24 World Sevens Series
|style="background:#ffd;"|Yellow |Invited team |} Notes
Placings summary Tallies of top-four placings in tournaments during the 2022–23 series, by team:
Team Gold Silver BronzeFourthTotal 6 1 — — 7 1 3 2 — 6 — 2 4 — 6 — 1 — 3 4 Great Britain — — 1 — 1 — — — 3 3 — — — 1 1
Player statistics
Scoring
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries1 Maddison Levi 572 Michaela Blyde 433 Charlotte Caslick 314 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe 30 Stacey Waaka 306 Reapi Ulunisau 287 Faith Nathan 258 Portia Woodman 24 Wakaba Hara 2410 Ana Maria Naimasi 23 Updated: 14 May 2023
+Points scored Rank Player Points1 Maddison Levi 2852 Tyla Nathan-Wong 2473 Michaela Blyde 2154 Lucy Mulhall 1835 Reapi Ulunisau 1706 Ana Maria Naimasi 1657 Charlotte Caslick 1558 Stacey Waaka 150 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe 15010 Michiyo Suda 130 Updated: 14 May 2023
Performance
+Impact Player winner Event Player PointsDubai Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe 71 Cape Town Camille Grassineau 81 Hamilton Beibhinn Parsons 72 Sydney Reapi Ulunisau 76 Vancouver Reapi Ulunisau 86 Hong Kong Séraphine Okemba 86 Toulouse Joanna Grisez 69 +Total Impact Player pointsRankPlayer Total1 Reapi Ulunisau7828761524662 Ana Maria Naimasi8923621504323 Charlotte Caslick14233211344174 Kristi Kirshe7522281473445 Eve Higgins6720211743436 Maddison Levi5349141143427 Lucy Mulhall9212171763388 Jorja Miller692735983189 Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe64311113331210 Michaela Blyde524210106304 Key: T: Tackles (1 pt), B: Line breaks (3 pts), O: Offloads (2 pts), C: Carries (1 pt)
Updated: 14 May 2023
Tournaments Dubai
EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup26–19Bronze21–195th Place28–127th Place14–109th Place15–1011th Place31–21
Cape Town
EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup31–14Bronze20–125th Place36–287th Place26–129th Place17–511th Place15–5
Hamilton
EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup33–7Bronze33–175th Place14–107th Place34–59th Place17–1211th Place44–5
Sydney
EventWinnerScoreFinalistCup35–0Bronze12–55th Place36–127th Place21–59th Place24–2111th Place29–0
Vancouver
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup19–12 (Bronze)5th place22–17 Great Britain (7th)9th place17–10 (11th)
Hong Kong
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup26–17 Great Britain (Bronze)5th place22–12 (7th)9th place26–17 (11th)
Toulouse
EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup19–14 (Bronze)5th place14–0 Great Britain (7th)9th place15–14 (11th)
See also 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series (for men's teams)
References
External links Official site