South Africa won !
South Africa won – As in previous years, South Africa won once again the Women's Sevens Africa Cup. The Blitzboks won all their matches ending with an amazing final against Kenya. Kenya put up a good fight and conceded victory on anhonorable final score : 22 - 17.
TheLionesses took a 10 - 7 lead in the first half, but the Bok Women’s Sevens side fought back to go 17 - 10 up. The East Africans levelled the scores at 17 - 17, but a late try sealed the victory for the South Africans. It has to be said that their Olympics participation were very beneficial for them. Next year, they will have the opportunity to confirm their development at the Africa Cup 7s 2017, qualifying tournament for the World Cup 2018.
"I was very happy to see an incredible improvement in the standard of rugby played at this tournament; Kenya particularly have benefited enormously from their participation in the Olympics and well-orchestrated High Performance programme. It is very obvious that consideration must be given for more 7’s to be played in the region if the women’s game is going to continue to grow and improve." Colleen de Jong - Zimbabwe Rugby Union'sCEO
Saturday 17 September 2016 : ZIMBABWE 7 - 24SOUTH AFRICA KENYA 17 - 12 TUNISIA NAMIBIA 7 - 22 SENEGAL UGANDA 12 - 10 MADAGASCAR SOUTH AFRICA 45 - 9 SENEGAL KENYA 38 - 0 MADAGASCAR NAMIBIA 0 - 29 ZIMBABWE UGANDA 17 - 12 TUNISIA SOUTH AFRICA 39 - 0 NAMIBIA KENYA 36 - 5 UGANDA SENEGAL 0 - 22 ZIMBABWE MADAGASCAR 15 - 19 TUNISIA
Sunday 18 September 2016 : MADAGASCAR 15 - 0 NAMIBIA TUNISIA 17 - 7 SENEGAL SOUTH AFRICA 29 - 5 UGANDA KENYA 31 - 5 ZIMBABWE ZIMBABWE 24 - 10 UGANDA SOUTH AFRICA 22 - 17 KENYA
Final ranking:
1.SOUTH AFRICA 2. KENYA 3. ZIMBABWE 4. UGANDA 5. TUNISIA 6. SENEGAL 7. MADAGASCAR 8. NAMIBIA
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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.
