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Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: Men's Squad Bios OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020: MEN’S SQUAD BIOS (As of 22 July) ARGENTINA – POOL A - Argentina have four survivors from Rio 2016, with Germán Schultz, Gastón Revol, Rodrigo Etchart and captain Santiago Álvarez all returning for their second Olympic Games. - They have seven survivors from Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018, with Lautaro Bazán Vélez, Luciano Gonzalez, Santiago Mare, Matías Osadczuk, Gastón Revol, Germán Schultz and captain Santiago Álvarez all part of the squad that finished fifth in San Francisco. - Gastón Revol is Argentina’s most-capped Series player with 81 tournaments, and the sixth most of any player in history. - He is the oldest player in the squad at 34 years of age. - He was Argentina’s top point-scorer at Rio 2016 with 37 points, scoring three tries and kicking 11 conversions. - He was Argentina’s top point-scorer at Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 with 21 points, scoring one try and kicking eight conversions. - Matías Osadczuk was Argentina’s leading try-scorer on the 2020 Series with 16 tries, including finishing the Dubai and Hamilton tournaments as the team’s top try-scorer. - He has scored a try in each of his past two Series matches against Pool A opponents Australia, and in two of his past three games against New Zealand, including their last win against them in Hong Kong in 2019. - Marcos Moneta was the tournament’s joint-leading try-scorer in Los Angeles in the penultimate Series event in 2020. He and Scotland’s Alec Coombes both scored seven tries. This was the only event on the 2020 Series where an Argentinian top scored at a single event. - He has played just four Series events, but has already scored 15 tries from 20 games played, including a hattrick and two doubles across his past two tournaments. - He is still chasing his first tries against Pool A opponents Australia and New Zealand, but was one of six try-scorers against Korea in their last meeting in Los Angeles in February 2020. - He is one of three players in their squad, alongside Ignacio Mendy and Lucio Cinti, to be born this century. The trio all helped Argentina win Youth Olympic Games gold on home soil in October 2018. - Lautaro Bazán Vélez enjoys a good try-scoring record against Pool A opponents New Zealand with at least one try in each of his past five matches, and seven tries in his past six games against them since 2017. - Head coach Santiago Gómez Cora is still Argentina’s leading point (1,178) and try-scorer (230) in Series history. He played 63 events between 2000-10, and at two Rugby World Cup Sevens (2001 and 2005). - He was appointed coach of Argentina in the 2013-14 Series, and has taken the team to two Series Cup finals (Las Vegas and Cape Town), as well as a sixth-place finish at Rio 2016 and fifth at Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018. Page 2 of 13 AUSTRALIA – POOL A - Australia have named three players without any World Rugby Sevens Series experience in their squad, with Nathan Lawson, Dietrich Roache and former Wallaby Samu Kerevi set to play their first global tournaments. - Samu Kerevi played 33 tests for Australia between 2016-19, scoring six tries. His last test appearance came in their Rugby World Cup 2019 quarter-final loss to England in Oita. He has played six of his 33 tests in Japan, with four matches at RWC 2019, scoring one try against Fiji in Sapporo, a test against Japan at Yokohama Stadium in 2017 where he scored a double, and a Bledisloe Cup test against New Zealand at Yokohama Stadium in 2018. - He has spent the past two seasons playing for Suntory Sungoliath in the Japanese Top League, scoring nine tries from 13 games played. - Dietrich Roache began his playing career in Rugby League, scoring the winning try for Patrician Brothers’ College, Fairfield in the NRL School Boys Trophy Final in 2018, before transitioning to rugby union with the Parramatta Two Blues Colts programme in 2019. This resulted in a call-up to the Australian Sevens team for the World Schools Sevens in New Zealand in December 2019. - Nathan Lawson, a product of the NSWRU Sevens programme, is yet to make his Series debut. He won the U17 national title with NSW in 2016, and has represented Australia at the Oceania Rugby U20 Championship 2019 against Fiji and New Zealand. - Lewis Holland has been added to the squad as the 13th player. He is Australia’s most-capped Series player with 53 tournaments, and their all- time leading try-scorer with 114 tries. - He made his Super Rugby debut this year for the Melbourne Rebels, playing three games. - He is one of three survivors in this squad from Rio 2016 alongside Henry Hutchison and Nick Malouf. - He is a veteran of two Rugby World Cup Sevens (2013 and 2018), but was ruled out of two Commonwealth Games, in 2014 and 2018, through hamstring injuries. - He is one of four survivors from Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018, alongside Maurice Longbottom, Henry Hutchison and Lachlan Anderson in this Australia squad. - Henry Hutchison has scored three tries in his past five games against Pool A opponents Argentina. He and Maurice Longbottom have each scored seven tries against New Zealand on the Series, the most by any Australian in this fixture. - Maurice Longbottom was Australia’s leading try-scorer at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 with five. He is one of two survivors, alongside Lachlan Anderson, from the team that finished fifth on the Gold Coast. - Lachlan Anderson was Australia’s leading try-scorer on the 2020 Series with 16 tries. He was the joint-top scorer at the last Series event to be played in Vancouver in 2020 with seven tries alongside Ireland’s Jordan Conroy. - He made his Series debut against Pool A opponents New Zealand in Sydney in 2017, and has scored a try in each of his past two Series matches against them. Page 3 of 13 CANADA – POOL B - Canada bring the most experienced squad to their first Olympic Games with a combined 528 World Series tournaments. - Five of their 13 players have 50 or more World Series tournaments worth of experience in co-captains Nathan Hirayama and Harry Jones, Mike Fuailefau, Pat Kay and Justin Douglas. - They have seven survivors from Commonwealth Games 2018 and five from Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018. - Their top three all-time leading try-scorers on the Series feature in this squad with Nathan Hirayama (147), Justin Douglas (145) and Harry Jones (126) all named. - Co-captain Nathan Hirayama is Canada’s all-time leading try (147) and point (1,859) scorer on the Series, and is their most capped player with 79 tournaments. - He is a veteran of three Commonwealth Games (2010, 2014, and 2018) and two Rugby World Cup Sevens (2013 and 2018), and was their leading point-scorer in San Francisco (23 points) and on the Gold Coast (24 points). - He is the only Canadian to finish a Series as the leading point-scorer, achieving this in 2018 with 334 points. He has been the top point- scorer at a single event on eight occasions, most recently at the last tournament in Vancouver in March 2020. - He was their leading try-scorer on the 2020 Series with 11 tries, including the most or joint-most for Canada in Dubai (three) and Hamilton (three). - He has been named as Canada’s flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremony alongside basketball player Miranda Ayim. - His father Garry played 12 tests for Canada between 1977-82, including one test in Japan in 1982 at Hanazono Field in Osaka. - Theo Sauder scored a double against Fiji in Canada’s last win against them in Vancouver. - He is one of three players who were part of Canada’s squad at Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan, alongside Conor Trainor and Andrew Coe. - Andrew Coe scored one of Canada’s two tries at Rugby World Cup 2019, crossing for their only try against Italy in a 48-7 loss in Fukuoka. - Mike Fuailefau was Canada’s leading try-scorer at Commonwealth Games 2018 with three tries. - Justin Douglas has scored the most doubles for Canada in Series history with 25, and the joint-second most hat-tricks with three. Page 4 of 13 FIJI – POOL B - Captain Jerry Tuwai is the only survivor from the team who won gold at Rio 2016. He is their second most-experienced player in World Rugby Sevens Series history with 54 tournaments, and has also won silver at Commonwealth Games 2018. - He has been named as Fiji’s flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremony alongside women’s captain Rusila Nagasau. Fiji’s flag was also carried by the men’s sevens captain at Rio 2016 in Osea Kolinisau. - Two of his three tries at Rio 2016 came in knockout matches, against New Zealand in the quarter-final, and against Team GB in the gold medal match. - He is Fiji’s all-time leading try-scorer on the Series with 134, but has never scored a hat-trick. His 20 career doubles are the second-most for Fiji behind Samisoni Viriviri (23). - He has scored seven tries in his past seven games against Pool B opponents Japan. - He is the only survivor in the squad from the last time a World Series event was played in Tokyo in 2014-15. - He was named World Rugby Men’s Sevens Player of the Year 2019, having previously been nominated in both 2017 and 2018. Fans also voted him the World Rugby Men’s Sevens Player of the Decade in December 2020.
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