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Wellington Sevens

The Wellington Sevens or the New Zealand International Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held in Wellington, New Zealand. The tournament, the third on the IRB Sevens World Series circuit, is played at Wellington's Westpac Stadium in early February and includes teams from 16 countries...

is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series

IRB Sevens World Series

The IRB Sevens World Series, known officially as the HSBC Sevens World Series as of the 2010-11 season, through sponsorship from banking group HSBC, and also sometimes called the World Sevens Series, is a series of international rugby union sevens tournaments organised for the first time in the...

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Rugby sevens

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). The 2008 competition, which took place on 1 and 2 February was the third Cup trophy in the 2007-08 IRB Sevens World Series

2007-08 IRB Sevens World Series

The 2007–08 IRB Sevens World Series was the ninth of an annual series of rugby union sevens tournaments for full national sides run by the International Rugby Board since 1999–2000...

Pool A

96
Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA
	3	3	0	0	103	7
9
	3	2	0	1	60	29
7
	3	1	0	2	37	85
5
	3	0	0	3	21	90
3

Date	Team 1	Score	Team 2
1 February 2008		43 - 0
1 February 2008		22 - 0
1 February 2008		41 - 0
1 February 2008		31 - 10
1 February 2008		27 - 21
1 February 2008		19 - 7

Pool B

60
Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA
	3	3	0	0	88	28
9
	3	2	0	1	48	52
7
	3	1	0	2	42	74
5
	3	0	0	3	29	53
3

Date	Team 1	Score	Team 2
1 February 2008		40 - 7
1 February 2008		17 - 21
1 February 2008		31 - 14
1 February 2008		5 - 15
1 February 2008		26 - 7
1 February 2008		17 - 7

Pool C

58
Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA
	3	3	0	0	86	28
9
	3	2	0	1	57	38
7
	3	1	0	2	26	52
5
	3	0	0	3	21	72
3

Date	Team 1	Score	Team 2
1 February 2008		24 - 14
1 February 2008		19 - 0
1 February 2008		29 - 7
1 February 2008		0 - 19
1 February 2008		24 - 14
1 February 2008		33 - 7

Pool D

33
Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA
	3	2	1	0	52	19
8
	3	2	0	1	57	50
7
	3	1	1	1	31	52
6
	3	0	0	3	36	55
3

Date	Team 1	Score	Team 2
1 February 2008		7 - 17
1 February 2008		26 - 0
1 February 2008		17 - 19
1 February 2008		7 - 7
1 February 2008		7 - 38
1 February 2008		12 - 19

Shield

Bowl

Plate

Cup

Round 3 table

{| class="wikitable"
! width=5%|Pos.
! Country !!

!! Overall
|-
| 1 || || 20 || 20 || 20 |||||||||||| 60
|-
| 2 || || 16 || 16 || 4 |||||||||||| 36
|-
| 3 || || 12 || 12 || 8 |||||||||||| 32
|-
| 4 || || 6 || 4 || 16 |||||||||||| 26
|-
| 5 || || 8 || 12 || 0 |||||||||||| 20
|-
| 6 || || 2 || 0 || 12 |||||||||||| 14
|-
| 6 || || 12 || 0 || 2 |||||||||||| 14
|-
| 8 || || 4 || 8 || 0 |||||||||||| 12
|-
| 8 || || - || - || 12 |||||||||||| 12
|-
| 8 || || 4 || 4 || 4 |||||||||||| 12
|-
| 11 || || 0 || 2 || 6 |||||||||||| 8
|-
| 12 || || 0 || 6 || 0 |||||||||||| 6
|-
| 13 || || 0 || 0 || 0 |||||||||||| 0
|-
| 13 || || 0 || 0 || 0 |||||||||||| 0
|-
| 13 || || 0 || 0 || - |||||||||||| 0
|-
| 13 || || 0 || 0 || - |||||||||||| 0
|-
| 13 || || - || - || 0 |||||||||||| 0
|-
| 13 || || - || - || 0 |||||||||||| 0
|-
| 13 || || - || 0 || - |||||||||||| 0
|-
| 13 || || 0 || - || - |||||||||||| 0
|}

was the second team to score over 1,000 overall points in the Group Stage of this tourmanet.

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