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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. 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
== Rugby World Cup Sevens
== Commonwealth Games
== World Games
=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)
= Current season
=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
External links
Official website
WorldRugby profile Archived 2 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine
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- South African Rugby Union
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- List of South Africa national rugby sevens players
- Fiji national rugby sevens team
- South Africa at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- New Zealand national rugby sevens team
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