The best of the quotes from players and coaches on the second day of the first ever Women's Rugby World Cup Sevens ...
VIDEO: History makers - Australia captain Cheryl Soon
"We have worked so hard to get here and to come here and achieve this is just mammoth. We believed in each other and we just knew we had to stick it out for the whole 20 minutes or however long. We just knew we could do it in the end."
– Australia captain Cheryl Soon on being the first ever Women's RWC Sevens world champions.
“A lot of the girls were out on their feet from playing the contact game and that played into Australia’s hands.”
– New Zealand captain Hannah Porter on her side’s sudden death extra time Cup final loss against Australia.
“It’s the sort of game which should have been the World Cup final but we ended up with seeds one and two facing each other in the quarter final. We said all along that Sevens is the kind of game where things can turn around. One mistake can change things and unfortunately today it wasn’t our day.”
– England’s Sue Day rues her side’s Cup quarter final defeat against Australia.
“In Russia we only have 100 girls who play rugby because it is not a professional sport there. It is very good and very positive for Russian rugby and we are happy about that.”
– Russia coach Pavel Baranovsky on what competing at RWC 2009 will do for women’s rugby in Russia.
"This experience has been great and the chance to have rugby in the Olympics will see a boom in Chinese rugby."
– China coach Zheng Hongjun on what RWC Sevens 2009 and the possible Sevens Olympic re-inclusion will do for Chinese rugby.
"I have been sitting on the bench for about three games, got my shot in the semi and the girls had so much belief in me and I just knew when I got that ball I wanted to do it for them. You dream of this."
– Australia’s Shelly Matcham on scoring the winning try in the Cup final.
"It's amazing. It is a big party out here and soon I will be taking part in it."
– Canada captain Maria Gallo on the party atmosphere at 'The Sevens'.
“This Sevens set-up is made for the Olympic Games and I certainly think that the rate of improvement in the women’s game in particular has been sensational and this sport would add so much to the Olympic programme.”
– England coach Simon Amor on the possible inclusion of Sevens at the 2016 Olympics.
There are a lot of women players back home watching and I think that this is a big start for Brazilian rugby. Hopefully we will now have a different sport for people to play in our country apart from football and maybe now rugby can fly in Brazil.”
– Brazil’s Emily Barker on more women playing rugby in her country after seeing them at the Sevens Rugby World Cup.
"Definitely. We love it, we love it."
– Australia World Cup winner Shelly Matcham on whether she was pleased to deny trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand a 15-a-side and Sevens world title double.
"We busted our guts this tournament. We came up against the number one seeds (England) and that was our first grand final. We played three grand finals today and won them all."
– Australian try scoring machine Debby Hodgkinson on how her team performed throughout the tournament.
"We lack the international exposure but this is proof of what we can do and what we could do in the future.”
– South Africa coach Denver Wannies on their winning strategy against Spain in the Cup quarter final.
"I think that if the intention of the Olympics is to unite the people and I think that rugby is the best example in sport to show this because every one who plays rugby knows what this union represents."
– Brazil captain Beatriz Futuro on rugby's campaign for Olympic re-inclusion.
