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Australia with seven golds and three silvers, and New Zealand with three golds and six silvers shared the spoils at the first Asia Pacific Seniors event in Utsunomiya, Japan last week.

The stage is set with 52 teams descending on Utsunomiya in Japan for the inaugural Asia Pacific Seniors Touch Cup and you can follow all the live action here, with Field 1 streamed across the four days of competition.

England Touch took six of the nine golds on offer at the largest European Youth Touch Championships held at the University of Warwick in Coventry last weekend. France and Ireland stopped them taking a clean sweep with golds in the X15, B18 and X20 respectively.

After 358 games across a little over 4 days of international competition, England took the overall honours, winning 10 of the 13 divisions on offer including the coveted Men’s and Women’s Open’s titles. But France prevented an Open’s clean sweep with their first gold in the Mixed Open beating England 9-6 in the final. France also took the Men’s 45 division whilst Wales claimed the Men’s 50 Gold Medal.

A record 78 teams took to the fields as action got underway in the first full day of competition at the 2026 European Touch Championships in Vichy, France.