The "Years" column indicates the years during which each player was active. Tournaments that formed part of the Sevens World Series since its formalisation in 1999 are displayed for the date range of the relevant season.
List of South Africa national rugby sevens players
Tournament abbreviations: Arg = Argentina, Aus = Australia, Bei = Beijing, Can = Canada, Car = Cardiff, CG = Commonwealth Games, Dub = Dubai, Fiji = Fiji, Fra = France, HK = Hong Kong, Jap = Japan, KL = Kuala Lumpur, Lon = London, Oly = Olympic Games, RWC = Rugby World Cup, SA = South Africa, San = Santiago, Sco = Scotland, Sha = Shanghai, Sing = Singapore, Ur = Uruguay, USA = United States, Viña = Viña del Mar, Wel = Wellington, WG = World Games
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The Rugby Championship, formerly known as the Tri Nations Series (1996–2011), is an international rugby union competition contested annually by Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. These are traditionally the four highest ranked national teams in the Southern Hemisphere; the Six Nations is a similar tournament in the Northern Hemisphere.
The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World Sevens Series, the competition was formed to promote an elite-level of international rugby sevens and develop the game into a viable commercial product. The competition has been sponsored by banking group HSBC since 2014.
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The Namibia national rugby union team represents Namibia in men's international rugby union competitions nicknamed the Welwitschias, are a tier-two nation in the World Rugby tier system, and have participated in seven Rugby World Cup competitions since their first appearance in 1999. They are governed by the Namibia Rugby Union.
Rugby sevens is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. Rugby sevens is administered by World Rugby, the body responsible for rugby union worldwide. The game is popular at all levels, with amateur and club tournaments generally held in the summer months. Sevens is one of the most well distributed forms of rugby, and is popular in parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and especially in the South Pacific.
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Rugby union in Australia has a history of organised competition dating back to the late 1860s. Although traditionally most popular in Australia's rugby football strongholds of New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, it is played throughout the nation.
Rugby union has been played in New Zealand since 1870 and is the most popular sport in the country as well as being its national sport.
Rugby union in South Africa is a highly popular team sport, along with cricket and soccer, and is widely played all over the country. The national team is among the strongest in the world and has been ranked in at least the top seven of the World Rugby Rankings since its inception in 2003. The country hosted and won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and won again in 2007, 2019 and 2023.
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Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held over six days in August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. The 2016 Olympics was the debut for rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics, though rugby union was last played at the 1924 games.
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Terry Bouhraoua is a French rugby union and rugby union sevens player who plays for the France national rugby sevens team. His position is scrum-half.
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References
↑ South African Rugby Annual 2014. South African Rugby Union. 2015. pp.255–257. ISBN978-0-620-62087-1.
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