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Rugby union sevens team
This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see South Africa women's national rugby sevens team .
The South African national rugby sevens team , commonly known as the Springbok Sevens , competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series , the Rugby World Cup Sevens , the Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games . Overall, the team has won the World Rugby Sevens Series 4 times, as well as having won 40 tournaments in the series.
History
After readmission to international sport following the ending of the apartheid ban, 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 as well as 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 "blitz" an Afrikaans word meaning lightning, and the derivative of Springbok ("Bok"), the official emblem of the South African rugby team.
Tournament history
Summer Olympics
Olympic Games record
Year
Round
Position
Pld
W
L
D
2016
Bronze medal match
3rd
6
4
2
0
2020
Fifth place match
5th
6
5
1
0
2024
Bronze medal match
3rd
6
3
3
0
Total
0 Titles
2/2
18
12
6
0
Rugby World Cup Sevens
World Cup Sevens record
Year
Round
Position
Played
Won
Lost
Drew
1993
Quarterfinals
5th
8
6
2
0
1997
Final
2nd
7
6
1
0
2001
Quarterfinals
5th
6
5
1
0
2005
Quarterfinals
5th
6
4
2
0
2009
Quarterfinals
5th
4
3
1
0
2013
Quarterfinals
5th
4
3
1
0
2018
Semifinals
3rd
4
3
1
0
2022
7th place final
7th
4
2
2
0
Total
0 Titles
8/8
43
32
11
0
Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games record
Year
Round
Position
Pld
W
L
D
1998
Quarterfinalists
5th
5
4
1
0
2002
Semifinalists
3rd
6
5
1
0
2006
Plate Finalists
6th
6
3
3
0
2010
Semifinalists
3rd
6
5
1
0
2014
Champions
1st
6
6
0
0
2018
Semifinalists
4th
5
3
2
0
2022
Champions
1st
6
6
0
0
Total
2 Titles
40
32
8
0
World Games
World Rugby Sevens Series
Main article: South Africa at the World Rugby Sevens Series
Series Record
Series tournament wins
South Africa won the following tournaments on the Sevens World Series since its inception in 1999–2000 :
40 Tournament wins (up to 06/12/2022)
Players
Current squad
The following players have been selected to represent South Africa during the 2023–24 SVNS tournament beginning in December 2023.
Note: Caps reflect the total number of SVNS events competed in as of the 2023 South Africa Sevens .
Records and statistics
Previous squads
The previous South African Sevens squads are as follows:
Player records
The following tables show the leading career South Africa players based on statistics from the World Rugby Sevens Series . Players in bold are still active.
Award winners
The following South Africa Sevens players have been recognised at the World Rugby Awards since 2004:
References
"Springbok Sevens" . sarugby.co.za . SA Rugby . Retrieved 8 December 2024."World Games Day 2: Fiji cruise to Gold Medal" . Ultimate Rugby Sevens. Archived from the original on 27 July 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2014."2013 World Games rugby results" . Archived from the original on 24 November 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2014.World Rugby website, current as of 15 March 2020
World Rugby website, current as of 15 March 2020
World Rugby website, current as of 15 March 2020
"Awards Roll of Honour - World Rugby" . www.world.rugby . Retrieved 16 March 2024.
External links
Rugby union in South Africa Governing body
National teams Competitions International
Provincial
Club
Women's clubs
Youth rugby
Defunct
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