THE Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) conducted a Beep Test for its national Sevens men’s team who are currently preparing for the 2015 Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens. Guyana had qualified for the International Rugby Board (IRB) mainstream event after capturing their seventh North American and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) 7s Championship in Mexico last year.

Twenty-eight men’s teams will compete in Hong Kong, with 16 competing in the core team competition and 12 in the Sevens World Series qualifier.
Head coach Theodore Henry joined Fitness Instructor Barrington Browne and Patron of the GRFU Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento, who all stated that they are satisfied with the level of improvement shown by the squad.
An average of 12.9 per player rating was given which is said to be almost two beeps more than their previous run.
The Hong Kong Sevens will take place from March 27 to 29 and comprises reigning champions New Zealand and fellow core teams Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Fiji, France, Japan, Kenya, Portugal, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, USA and Wales who will be joined by tournament newcomers Belgium in the sixth round of the World Series. In accepting an invitation to take part, Belgium became the 57th country to compete in Hong Kong since 1976.
The 12-team line-up in the qualifier will comprise two teams from each of World Rugby’s six regional associations.
The winners will earn core team status for 2015-16 and replace the lowest-ranked side at the conclusion of the current series.
Japan won the qualifier in Hong Kong last year to join the series. Russia and Spain are the representatives from Europe, Papua New Guinea and Tonga from Oceania, Zimbabwe and Tunisia from Africa, Mexico and Guyana from North America and the Caribbean, Uruguay and Brazil from South America and hosts Hong Kong and Korea from Asia.
World Rugby’s General Manager Sevens Avan Lee said: “Hong Kong is going to be very special for lots of reasons in 2015, not least because in the tournament’s 40th anniversary year the organisers will be pulling out all the stops to make their event even more special than it always is for the players and the fans.