South Africa 7s
- Leagues Played
- World Rugby Sevens Series 435 World Rugby SVNS Series 87 Commonwealth Games Rugby 7s 11 Oktoberfest 7s 10 Rugby World Cup Sevens 8 IRB World Sevens Series 8 Olympics 2020 Rugby Sevens - Men 6 Olympic 7s Qualification 6 Olympics 2024 Rugby Sevens - Men 6
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Results
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 12/07 14:43 | - |
South Africa 7s v
Argentina 7s
|
W | 21-19 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 12/07 10:22 | - |
South Africa 7s v
France 7s
|
W | 22-17 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 12/06 17:41 | - |
South Africa 7s v
Great Britain 7s
|
W | 41-7 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 12/06 14:00 | - |
New Zealand 7s
v
South Africa 7s
|
W | 14-19 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 12/06 10:44 | - |
Fiji 7s
v
South Africa 7s
|
W | 21-24 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 11/30 13:06 | - |
Spain 7s
v
South Africa 7s
|
W | 12-21 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 11/30 07:54 | - |
Great Britain 7s
v
South Africa 7s
|
W | 0-34 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 11/29 16:34 | - |
South Africa 7s v
Argentina 7s
|
L | 14-19 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 11/29 12:16 | - |
South Africa 7s v
Fiji 7s
|
L | 10-28 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 11/29 09:32 | - |
South Africa 7s v
France 7s
|
W | 15-12 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 05/05 00:41 | - |
Spain 7s
v
South Africa 7s
|
W | 5-19 | |
| World Rugby SVNS Series | 05/04 20:46 | - |
South Africa 7s v
New Zealand 7s
|
W | 26-5 |
Wikipedia - South Africa 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.