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Springbok Sevens, Blitzboks, Blitzbokke: Emblem: Springbok: Union: South African Rugby Union: Head coach: Phillip Snyman: Captain: Selvyn Davids: Most caps: Branco du Preez (Most Tournament Caps) Top scorer: Cecil Afrika (1,430) Top try scorer: Seabelo Senatla (224)
Paul Treu is one of the most-capped players for the Blitzbokke. He played in 32 tournaments between 1999 and 2002 and coached the team between 2004 and 2013. Below is a listing of all South African rugby union players that have represented the Blitzbokke since 1993. [1] The "Years" column indicates the years during which each player was active.
Rugby World Cup Sevens (RWCS) is the quadrennial world championship of rugby sevens, a variant of rugby union.Organised by World Rugby, it currently consists of men's and women's tournaments, and is the highest level of competition in the sport outside of the Summer Olympics.
South Africa's national team, known as Springbok Sevens, and also nicknamed "Blitzbokke", have become one of the sport's top national sides, as evidenced by their victory in the 2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series and recently in both 2016–2017 and 2017–18. Cape Town is scheduled to host the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Qualification for the men's rugby sevens tournament at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics took place from November 2022 to June 2024, selecting twelve teams. All six World Rugby zones were to have a continental rugby sevens representative in the tournament. [1]
Today, rugby is played and enjoyed amongst all races in South Africa. South Africa hosted the 1995 Rugby World Cup , the first in Africa, and won it as well. Cricket is popular among the English-speaking white and Indian communities, although it has garnered an exponential following amongst other races in recent years.
Rugby union in South Africa is centrally administered by the South African Rugby Union, which consists of fourteen provincial unions – the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, the Boland Rugby Union, the Border Rugby Football Union, the Eastern Province Rugby Union, the Free State Rugby Union, the Golden Lions Rugby Union, the Griffons Rugby Union, the Griqualand West Rugby Union, the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby ...
The Dubai 7s has been held at The Sevens Stadium since 2008. Facilities at The Sevens include: eight rugby pitches, six cricket pitches, four netball/tennis courts, one basketball court, a grandstand, and ancillary facilities.