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Rugby sevens at the 2006 Asian Games

Rugby sevens
at the 2006 Asian Games
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Venue Grand Hamad Stadium
Dates December 10, 2006 (2006-12-10)–December 11, 2006 (2006-12-11)
Competitors 108 from 9 nations
2002 2010

Rugby sevens was contested by nine teams at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar on December 10 and 11. All games played at the Grand Hamad Stadium.

As a limited number of teams could enter, The Asian Rugby Football Union announced 2005 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7's as the qualification event for the eight-team tournament. But later, they changed the decision and picked host nation Qatar and top 6 teams from 2002 edition, South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Japan, China and Sri Lanka. For the last spot a qualification tournament was held in Hong Kong on 4 February 2006.

Later they added India to the competition to make it a nine-team tournament.

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)


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