Australian star Maddison Levi scored a hat-trick of tries the ladies’s rugby sevens crew made an announcement weeks out from the Olympics by taking the title in Spain, the ultimate occasion earlier than Paris, with an emphatic 26-7 win over France.
Levi, who is ready for her second Olympics in Paris, scored 13 of Australia’s 21 tries in Madrid, together with three hat-tricks in 5 video games with 69 tries for the season the second finest whole in sequence historical past, amongst women and men.
The Australians additionally took down rivals New Zealand within the semi-final on their solution to victory which left captain, and 2016 Rio gold medallist Charlotte Caslick beaming.
“You discover how resilient our crew is for such a younger group of women, simply the best way they adapt to vary and bounce again from adversity, it’s actually inspiring,” she stated.
“They’ve nonetheless bought a lot to offer, they’re so younger they usually simply make me actually proud and encourage me to get higher on daily basis.
“It’s clearly nice to get a win over the Kiwis this morning, we’ve got a ding-dong battle with them, so to get some confidence out of that [leading into the Olympics] and perception in ourselves is de facto vital.
“Like each crew we’ll work onerous to get it proper over there [in Paris].”
Australian coach Tim Walsh stated it was a “poetic method” to finish the season for his crew which looms as a professional gold medal probability.
“We’re nonetheless constructing and this momentum will solely encourage us to work more durable. Sevens has all of it and notably on this sport you can not take something as a right,” he stated.
“Charlotte was at her world class finest and Maddison Levi continued on her scintillating attempt scoring blitz. I used to be additionally notably impressed with Religion Nathan, Bella Nasser and the excellent Sariah Paki.
“Everyone has contributed each right here and at residence. We’re a professionally run program and we’re Rugby Australia.”
Australia and New Zealand share the one two Olympic gold medals and would be the favourites once more in Paris.
