Asia Games 7s – match officials announced

Asia Rugby has unveiled the team of match officials for the 19th Asian Games which kicks off on 24 September in Hangzhou, China.

The Rugby 7s event features 13 men’s teams and 7 women’s teams, and is scheduled to take place over three days at Hangzhou University Cangqian Athletics Field. The MO team is made of referees, ARs, TMOs from eight Unions around Asia. The list is headed by Craig Chan – a regular on the World Sevens Series.

We wish the whole MO team well for next weekend.

Referees/Assistant Referees

Qu Sheng Gang – China
Craig Chan – HK China
Morgan White – HK China
Ano Kuwai – Japan
Eri Kamimura – Japan
Ibuki Tetsuka – Japan
Ryoji Hirose – Japan
Hibiki Ikeda – Japan
Jefri Mustafa – Malaysia
Leow Wei Liang – SIngapore
Christobelle Lim – Singapore
Just Wang – Singapore
James Fairbourn – UAE

TMO
Shane Barr – Singapore
Matt Roden – HK CHina

PR/CMO (Performance Reviewer/Coach of Match Official)
Taku Otsuki – Japan
Greg Hinton – Mongolia

Referee Manager
George Danapal – Asia Rugby

Citing Commissioner
Chris Galea – SIngapore
Rizwan Malik – Pakistan

Judicial Officer
Ramesh Lachmanan – Malaysia
Hiroyuki Komyo – Japan