Africa shines !
Africa shines - Successful gamble for Cape Town 7s ! The show definitely lived up to the 7s rugby amateurs’ expectationsover the weekend of December 12th and 13th. South Africa once again displayed an amazing hospitality and proved its capacity to host incredible events.
The stadium was filled to capacity withmore than 110 000 seats sold on two days oftournament. The crowd was friendly and excited creating a great atmosphere! Itsurely helped our African teams toshine during this second stage of the HSBC circuit.
The PoolB included among others South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe, a very promising clash of the African titans. Our players didn’t disappoint and put up a nice show !
Results of bothdays :
Saturday, December 12th : ENGLAND 19 – 19 KENYA SOUTH AFRICA 26 – 5 ZIMBABWE ENGLAND 43 – 0 ZIMBABWE SOUTH AFRICA 12 – 14 KENYA KENYA 36 – 0 ZIMBABWE ENGLAND 0 – 10 SOUTH AFRICA
Sunday, December 13th : WALES 21 – 12 ZIMBABWE AUSTRALIA 5 – 25 SOUTH AFRICA KENYA 26 – 10 UNITED STATES SAMOA 33 – 0 ZIMBABWE FRANCE 12 – 21 ARGENTINE SOUTH AFRICA 24 – 22 KENYA FRANCE 28 – 26 KENYA SOUTH AFRICA 29 – 14 ARGENTINA
This week, Collins Injera is making his come back in theTop 10 of the best scorers. In two days, he indeed scored 5 tries bringing him tothe 4th place in the ranking,the only African to feature in it
South Africa thus wonthe trophy at home and has now the same number of points in the general ranking as Fiji.
Cape Town 7s was a brilliant finish ofthe HSBC World Series for 2015. The players are now heading back home to spend Christmas and new Year holidays with their families. We shall seethem in great form at the end of January in Wellington (New Zealand) where they will restart for 4 months of sevens rugbyaround the globe !
The first African team on the ground of Westpac Stadium will be Kenya which will face Canada on January 30th at 12:58 am ; then South Africa will meet Scotland at 1:42 pm. (GMT + 12 hours)
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Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com) is the governing body of rugby in Africa and one of the regional associations under World Rugby. It unites all African countries that play rugby union, rugby sevens, and women’s rugby. Rugby Africa organizes various competitions, including the qualifying tournaments for the Rugby World Cup and the Africa Sevens, a qualifying competition for the Olympic Games. With 39 member unions, Rugby Africa is dedicated to promoting and developing rugby across the continent. World Rugby highlighted Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia as three of the six emerging nations experiencing strong growth in rugby.
