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New Zealand has knocked Australia’s ladies off the highest spot within the World Rugby Sevens Sequence rankings after successful gold in Hamilton.
Australia was upset 10-7 by the US within the semi-final earlier than beating Eire 33-17 to say bronze.
New Zealand had a 33-7 victory over the US within the remaining to maneuver to 58 factors on the desk, 4 away from its trans-Tasman rivals.
In the meantime Australia’s males, the defending champions, have some work to do after ending fifth in Hamilton to slide to seventh within the rankings on 52 factors, 11 factors behind leaders New Zealand.
Argentina shocked the Kiwis 14-12 to win the ultimate.
Australia’s males had a breakthrough Hong Kong Sevens win to begin the season and will probably be aiming to recapture kind when the sequence strikes to Sydney from January 27-29.
Australia’s ladies, the defending world and Commonwealth Video games champions, started Sunday’s motion with a 38-Zero win over Nice Britain of their quarter-final with co-captain Charlotte Caslick scoring a double.
The semi started nicely for Australia with Madison Ashby getting into for a transformed strive however the US scored twice in three minutes to take the lead.
Australia was attacking on the finish of the match however was unable to recover from.
“We do not like dropping however it comes with the territory of being the hunted,” Australia’s coach Tim Walsh stated.
“We supplied publicity to some inexperienced mixtures and conditions, which can present actual worth transferring ahead.”
Australia’s males misplaced 28-14 to the US of their quarter-final.
They bounced again to beat Fiji 26-19 and Eire 26-12 to take fifth place.
Henry Paterson scored a double in every recreation with coach John Manenti labeling him “a weapon with ball in hand”.
-AAP
