Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: Women’S Session 4 Stats
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OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020: WOMEN’S SESSION 4 STATS GENERAL STATISTICS New Zealand now boast the best record in Olympic history with nine wins and one defeat – in the gold medal match to Australia – in 10 matches on sport’s greatest stage. Fiji, France, China, the Russian Olympic Committee and Kenya are guaranteed their record their highest Olympic finish. New Zealand and Great Britain can also do so if they improve on silver and fourth place respectively. Australia, Canada, Brazil and Japan will finish lower than at Rio 2016, regardless of their results on the final day. Fiji’s Reapi Ulunisau and New Zealand’s Michaela Blyde are the joint top try and point-scorers after day two with six and 30. Great Britain’s Jasmine Joyce is next best on five with Anne-Cécile Ciofani, Séraphine Okemba (both France), Tang Minglin (China), Charity Williams (Canada) and Portia Woodman (New Zealand) on four. Four players have now scored a hat-trick in the women’s competition – matching the number from Rio 2016 – after Canada’s Charity Williams (v Brazil) added her name to that of Fiji’s Reapi Ulunisau (v Brazil) joining Australia’s Emma Tonegato (v Japan) and New Zealand’s Michaela Blyde (v Great Britain). A total of 135 tries and 847 points have been scored after two days of Tokyo 2020. This is slightly down on the 140 tries and 869 points scored in the first 24 matches of Rio 2016. New Zealand have scored the most tries (20) and points (124) at Tokyo 2020 with France the only other team to surpass a century of points (107). Their 17 tries is the next best with Australia on 98 points and 16 tries. Page 2 of 6 MATCH 19 – CANADA 45-0 BRAZIL – NINTH PLACE SEMI-FINAL 1 Both teams will record their lowest finish at an Olympic Games. Canada won the bronze medal in Rio but can finish no higher than ninth, while Brazil finished ninth on home soil but 11th is the best they can achieve in Tokyo. Charity Williams is the first Canadian woman to score a hat-trick in an Olympic match. She is the second Canadian after Connor Braid, who scored the only hat-trick of the men’s competition at Tokyo 2020. Fellow Rio 2016 bronze medallist Karen Paquin also crossed for a double in the victory. Canada have now scored 12 of their 14 tries at Tokyo 2020 against Brazil, crossing for five in their opening pool match and seven in this ninth place semi-final. Those seven tries have doubled Canada’s tally for the tournament. Eleven of those 14 tries have been scored by Canada’s returning Olympians in Charity Williams (4), Karen Paquin (3), Ghislaine Landry (2), Kayla Moleschi (1) and Britt Benn (1). Keyara Wardley (2) and Julia Greenshields (1) are the other Canadian try-scorers. The 45 points scored matches Canada’s previous highest score and winning margin on the Olympic stage, having beaten Japan 45-0 in their first match at Rio 2016. Brazil were without Bianca Silva, their only try-scorer in the pool stage, after she received a one-match suspension for accruing three yellow cards. Brazil have received a yellow card in every match and four of the seven brandished to this point at Tokyo 2020. Page 3 of 6 MATCH 20 – KENYA 21-17 JAPAN – NINTH PLACE SEMI-FINAL 2 Kenya recorded their first victory of Tokyo 2020 and only their second in Olympic history, having beaten Colombia in Rio. Kenya avenge a 24-0 loss to Japan at the same stage in Rio. Ironically Kenya’s men also beat Japan in the ninth place semi-final on Tuesday. Camilla Atieno’s match-winning try on the final play means that Kenya are guaranteed their highest finish at an Olympic Games, having finished 11th in Rio. Japan will finish at least one place lower than in Rio 2016, where they placed 10th. It will be the lowest placing in the women’s competition by an Olympic host nation as Brazil finished ninth on home soil. Page 4 of 6 MATCH 21 – NEW ZEALAND 36-0 RUSSIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE – MEDAL QUARTER-FINAL 1 New Zealand are the only one of the top four seeds to remain in contention for a medal after Australia and USA lost in the quarter-finals. New Zealand have scored 95 unanswered points since finding themselves 21-0 down against Great Britain in their second match. The Black Ferns Sevens scored 26 points to beat Team GB then powered past the Russian Olympic Committee 33-0 to top Pool A and 36-0 in the medal quarter-final. New Zealand have scored 11 tries and 69 points in two matches with the Russian Olympic Committee in Tokyo. Michaela Blyde scored her sixth try of the competition to join Fiji’s Reapi Ulunisau on top of the try-scoring charts. This matches the tally of Argentina’s Marcos Moneta in the men’s tournament in Tokyo, but is still four shy of Portia Woodman’s total in Rio. Portia Woodman scored her first brace of Tokyo 2020 and now has touched down for 14 tries on the Olympic stage. MATCH 22 – FIJI 14-12 AUSTRALIA – MEDAL QUARTER-FINAL 2 Fiji are one victory away from become their country’s first women to win an Olympic medal and can still emulate their men’s team in winning rugby sevens gold. Fiji’s win not only ended the reign of Australia as Olympic champions but was also their first victory over their Oceania rivals in a global tournament, having lost 23 of their 24 meetings on the World Rugby Sevens Series, one at Rio 2016 and one at the Commonwealth Games 2018. Their best previous result was a 24-24 draw in Langford in 2017. Australia went into day two unbeaten on the Olympic stage but have now lost back-to-back matches. Page 5 of 6 MATCH 23 – USA 12-21 GREAT BRITAIN – MEDAL QUARTER-FINAL 3 Great Britain’s Jasmine Joyce scored her second double of the day, having also crossed against Kenya in their final Pool B match. She is the second Team GB woman to score two braces on the Olympic stage, Abbie Brown having bagged one in Rio and one in Tokyo. Great Britain raced into a 21-0 lead, the same score the Team GB men had trailed against USA in their medal quarter-final before staging the joint biggest comeback in Olympic history to win 26-21. The USA women did score twice, but too late to mount a comeback. It will be a second medal semi-final for Great Britain but they will hope to improve on Rio where they missed out on the podium in fourth. USA have bowed out in the last eight for the second Olympics in a row, but can still match their fifth place finish in Rio if they win their remaining two matches. MATCH 24 – FRANCE 24-10 CHINA – MEDAL QUARTER-FINAL 4 France are guaranteed their highest finish in an Olympic Games after reaching the medal semi-finals for the first time. France are one of only two teams with a perfect record, having won all four matches at Tokyo 2020 along with New Zealand. Séraphine Okemba is the third player to score a brace for France in Tokyo, joining Anne-Cécile Ciofani and Lina Guerin who both dotted down twice in Les Bleues’ second pool match against Brazil. China have scored the opening try in all four of their matches in Tokyo but only gone on to win once, against Japan. China scored two tries against France, the same number as Les Bleues had conceded in the pool stage. Page 6 of 6 .