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2016 Asia Pacific Championship

rugby union tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2023
Entity authorityQ118875216 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2016 Asia Pacific Women's Championship was a rugby union competition for women's national teams held in Hong Kong from 9 to 17 December 2016. This tournament doubled as the qualification to the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, which is why Fiji, by virtue of winning the 2016 Oceania Rugby Women's Championship, is attending. The top two teams directly qualify to the World Cup.

Japan and Hong Kong secured their places for the Rugby World Cup after both teams defeated Fiji.

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“2016 Asia Pacific Championship” enters the record as rugby union tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Asia, Pacific and Championship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Asia, Pacific and Championship.
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“2016 Asia Pacific Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Asia, Pacific and Championship provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q118875216. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016 Asia Pacific Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.