{"id":416,"date":"2015-05-17T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-05-17T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T16:03:32","slug":"fiji-crowned-sevens-world-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Fiji crowned sevens world champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"fiji won\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fiji were crowned Sevens World Series champions for the first time in nine years with a 19-7 win over South Africa on the final day of the season at Twickenham on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The victory over second-placed South Africa came in the quarter-final of the tournament in London and guaranteed Fiji the overall world title, regardless of who wins the final. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing day,&#8221; Fiji captain Osea Kolinisau, whose team finished with a 100 percent record in pool matches this season with 27 wins from 27 games, told the tournament website(www.worldrugby.org\/sevens-series). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really thankful that we have finished the Series with the title, it has been a tough journey all along.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fiji&#8217;s first win since 2006, and their second since the series began in 1999, broke 12-times winners New Zealand&#8217;s stranglehold on the trophy. <\/p>\n<p>The Kiwis, who had won the last four series, face England in the quarter-finals later on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The hosts confirmed that they will be the team to represent Britain in the inaugural rugby sevens tournament at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after guaranteeing a top-four finish with two pool wins on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji were crowned Sevens World Series champions for the first time in nine years with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiji-won.jpg",400,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}