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The Springbok Women played their first Test in 2004. [1] They have won the Rugby Africa Women's Cup twice — in 2019 and 2022. [2] [3] South Africa climbed to eleventh place on the World Rugby ranking in September 2022 with wins over Japan and Spain.
Dolf made her debut for the Springbok women's team in 2023. She also made her debut for the sevens team in December of that year at the Cape Town SVNS. [3] [1]She was a member of the South African women's sevens team that competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
South Africa at the 2012 Dubai Women's 7s. The South Africa women's national rugby sevens team competes at events within the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and are a core team for the 2023–24 season. They first played in the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, and also competed in the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup in the 2011–12 season.
In 2023, Janse van Rensburg was named as a part of the first professional women's team in South Africa, the Bulls Daisies. [6] She was the vice-captain in their 2023 Women's Premier Division win. [7] [8] In April 2023, it was announced that Janse van Rensburg would join the sevens team ahead of the 2023 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series.
The team has represented South African Rugby Union in international rugby union since 30 July 1891, when they played their first test match against a British Isles touring team. Currently, the Springboks are the reigning World Champions, having won the World Cup a record four times (1995, 2007, 2019 and 2023).
Zintle Mpupha (born 25 December 1993) is a South African women's rugby union player and cricketer from Xesi, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [1] She played cricket for Border cricket team and rugby for Border Bulldogs as well as the South Africa women's national rugby sevens team as a fly half.
The Springboks have beaten Scotland and England this autumn after winning the Rugby Championship in the summer TEAM NEWS: Gatland makes four changes to Wales with Costelow, Dyer, Plumtree and ...
[1] [2] She was named in the Springbok women's sevens side for the 2023 Dubai Women's Sevens. [3] She was a member of the South African side that competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [4] [5] She returned to the Springbok Women's fifteens squad for the 2024 WXV 2 tournament after her last appearance in 2022. [6]