The South African national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games.
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History
After readmission to international sport, the team played their first sevens series in the 1993 Hong Kong Sevens and also participated in the 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens. They also played in the Hong Kong Sevens for the next two seasons. In 1996, they also took part in the Punta Del Este Sevens in Uruguay and the Dubai Sevens.
They participated in the 1997 Rugby World Cup Sevens the following year and in 1998, they played three South American tournaments - the Mar Del Plata Sevens in Argentina, the Punta Del Este Sevens and the Viña del Mar Sevens in Chile.
1999 saw them participate in the Mar Del Plata Sevens, the Santiago Sevens in Chile, the Fiji Sevens, the Hong Kong Sevens, the Japan Sevens and the Paris Sevens.
At the end of 1999, the first World Rugby Sevens Series (then the IRB Sevens World Series) started and the team have been participating in that series ever since.
In addition to the Sevens Series, they also played in the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the Commonwealth Games, the World Games and, from 2016 onwards, the Olympic Games.
The team's nickname, "Blitzboks", is derived from "blitzrugby" (literally "lightning rugby"), the Afrikaans language term for sevens.
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Honours
- 2002 Commonwealth Games Bronze Medal
- 2005 World Games Silver Medal
- 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series Champions
- 2009 World Games Bronze Medal
- 2010 Commonwealth Games Bronze Medal
- 2013 World Games Gold Medal
- 2014 Commonwealth Games Gold Medal
- 2016 Summer Olympics Bronze Medal
- 2016-17 World Rugby Sevens Series Champions
- 2017-18 World Rugby Sevens Series Champions
- 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens Bronze Medal
Tournament history
Summer Olympics
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Commonwealth Games
World Games
Sevens World Series
Series wins
South Africa won the following editions on the Sevens World Series since its inception in 1999-2000:
Tournament wins
South Africa won the following tournaments on the Sevens World Series since its inception in 1999-2000:
Players
Current squad
The following players were named in squads that competed at events on the 2017-18 World Rugby Sevens Series:
Rugby World Cup squad
On 11 July 2018, SARU announced a thirteen-man squad for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens:
Commonwealth Games squad
On 26 February 2018, SASCOC announced a thirteen-man squad for the 2018 Commonwealth Games: Seabelo Senatla and Kwagga Smith were initially included, but subsequently withdrew from the squad.
Previous squads
The previous South African Sevens squads are as follows:
References
External links
- Official website
- WorldRugby profile
Source of article : Wikipedia
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