Rugby sevens at the 2018 Asian Games

Rugby sevens at the 2018 Asian Games was held over three days from 30 August to 1 September 2018.^[1] This was the sixth appearance of rugby sevens at the Asian Games.^[2] The Games was planned to be held at the Wibawa Mukti Stadium in Bekasi but then moved to Rugby Field inside the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex.^[3]

Rugby sevens at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	Gelora Bung Karno Rugby Field
Dates	30 August – 1 September 2018
Competitors	239 from 13 nations
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Schedule

P

Preliminary round

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	30th Thu	31st Fri		1st Sat
Men	P	P	¼	½	F
Women	P	P	¼	½	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Hong Kong Lee Jones Michael Coverdale Max Woodward Liam Herbert Jamie Hood Hugo Stiles Alessandro Nardoni Max Denmark Ben Rimene Eric Kwok Cado Lee Salom Yiu	Japan Lote Tuqiri Tevita Tupou Taisei Hayashi Rikiya Oishi Kameli Soejima Dai Ozawa Katsuyuki Sakai Keisuke Shin Ryota Kano Kosuke Hashino Chihito Matsui Naoki Motomura	South Korea Han Kun-kyu Kim Jeong-min Kim Hyun-soo Chang Yong-heung Lee Jae-bok Kim Nam-uk Jang Jeong-min Hwang In-jo Jang Seong-min Kim Jin-hyeok Kim Gwong-min Kim Sung-soo
Women details	Japan Chiharu Nakamura Noriko Taniguchi Raichel Bativakalolo Yume Okuroda Fumiko Otake Riho Kurogi Tomomi Kozasa Iroha Nagata Yukari Tateyama Yume Hirano Ano Kuwai Emii Tanaka	China Lu Yuanyuan Yang Min Chen Ming Hu Yu Yan Meiling Wang Wanyu Chen Keyi Liu Xiaoqian Yu Xiaoming Yu Liping Gao Yueying Sun Caihong	Kazakhstan Veronika Stepanyuga Nigora Nurmatova Karina Proskurina Yeva Bekker Vlada Odnoletok Olessya Teryayeva Kundyzay Baktybayeva Anna Yakovleva Svetlana Klyuchnikova Balzhan Koishybayeva Darya Tkachyova Lyudmila Korotkikh

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
2	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	0	1
3	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The draw for the competition was done at the JS Luwansa Hotel, Jakarta on 5 July 2018. The draw was conducted by Indonesian Asian Games Organizing Committee (INASGOC) in the presence of general manager Asia Rugby.^[4]

Men

Group A  Hong Kong  China  Thailand  Pakistan

Group B  Japan  Malaysia  Chinese Taipei  Indonesia

Group C  South Korea  Sri Lanka  United Arab Emirates  Afghanistan

Women

Group A  China  Hong Kong  Singapore  South Korea

Group B  Japan  Kazakhstan  Thailand  Indonesia

Final standing

Men

Further information: Rugby sevens at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Hong Kong	6	6	0	0
	Japan	6	5	0	1
	South Korea	6	5	0	1
4	Sri Lanka	6	3	0	3
5	Malaysia	6	4	0	2
6	China	6	3	0	3
7	Chinese Taipei	6	2	0	4
8	Thailand	6	1	0	5
9	Afghanistan	6	4	0	2
10	Pakistan	6	2	0	4
11	Indonesia	6	1	0	5
12	United Arab Emirates	6	0	0	6

Women

Further information: Rugby sevens at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Japan	6	6	0	0
	China	6	5	0	1
	Kazakhstan	6	4	0	2
4	Thailand	6	2	0	4
5	Hong Kong	6	4	0	2
6	Singapore	6	2	0	4
7	South Korea	6	1	0	5
8	Indonesia	6	0	0	6