Seven players each from Havies and Kandy in squad for Monaco 7s

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By Shamzeer Jaleel

Seven players each from the defending league champions Kandy SC and runner up Havelocks SC were named in the initial pool of 20 players for the Olympic qualification sevens tournament which will take place in Monaco on June 18 and 19. Women’s tournament will take place in Dublin, Ireland on 25 and 26 June. Both events winners will book their berth for Rio Rugby sevens in Brazil in the men’s and women’s segment.

The final touring 12 will be named end of this month. The squad is under the watchful eyes of Head Coach Matt Turner.

Initial pool of 20 layers are

Sudarshan Muthuthatntri, Danushka Ranjan, Hirantha Perera, Sandun

Herath, Rehan Thyagaraja, Nishon Perera, Kevin Dixon (All from Havelock SC)

Fazil Marija, Srinath Sooriyabandara, Danushka Dayan, Richard Dharmapala,

Vishwamithra Jayasinghe, Sayuru Anthony and Roshan Weeraratne(Kandy SC)

Jason Dissanayake, Lochana Hettiarachchi, Kavindu Perera, Kanchana

Ramanayake (CR & FC, Reza Raffaideen (Police SC) and Omalka Gunarathne (Navy SC)

MONACO SEVENS-MEN’S

Pool A: Samoa, Zimbabwe, Tonga, Ireland

Pool B: Canada, Germany, Uruguay, Sri Lanka

Pool C: Russia, Chile, Morocco, Tunisia

Pool D: Hong Kong, Spain, Mexico, South Korea

DUBLIN SEVENS – WOMEN’S

Pool A: Seed 1*, Samoa, Zimbabwe, Madagascar

Pool B: Seed 2*, Mexico, Venezuela, Tunisia

Pool C: Seed 3*, China, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago

Pool D: Hong Kong, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Cook Islands

nSeeds one-three (Russia, Spain and Ireland) will be confirmed after the final round of the HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series in Clermont-Ferrand on 28-29 May

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