Santa Teresa seven-a-side

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Santa Teresa seven-a-side
Sport Rugby sevens
Founded 1993
Country Venezuela

Santa Teresa seven-a-side is an annual club rugby sevens tournament in Venezuela. It is organised by the Fundación Santa Teresa and it has the support of the Venezuelan Rugby Federation. [1] Venezuelan and foreign teams compete in the following categories: Men, Women and Junior (Under-18). [2] The matches are played on a rugby pitch located at Hacienda Santa Teresa, a sugarcane plantation next to El Consejo, in Aragua State.

Rugby sevens ballgame-team sport

Rugby sevens, and originally known as seven-a-side rugby, 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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History

The tournament was founded in 1993. It was originally organised by the Club de Rugby de la Universidad Metropolitana. [3] Since 2008, Fundación Santa Teresa is in charge of the competition. [1] [2]

Champions

YearMenWomenJunior
2012 Mérida Rugby Club [4] UCV Rugby Club [4] Proyecto Alcatraz Rugby Club [4]
2013 Tigres de Cabimas Rugby Football Club [5] UCAB Rugby Club [5] Tracianos Rugby Club [5]
2014 Mérida Rugby Club [6] Mérida Rugby Club [6] Proyecto Alcatraz Rugby Club [6]
2015 Club de Rugby Caballeros de Mérida [7] UCV Rugby Club [7] Rinocerontes Rugby Club [7]
2016 Club de Rugby Caballeros de Mérida [8] UCV Rugby Club [8] Cancillería de Colombia [8]
2017 Proyecto Alcatraz Rugby Club [9] Panteras de Aragua [9] Proyecto Alcatraz Rugby Club [9]

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  3. ↑ "Breve Reseña del Rugby en Venezuela" (in Spanish). rugby7.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2000. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
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  6. 1 2 3 "Grandes emociones se vivieron en el Seven Santa Teresa" (in Spanish). Venezuelan Rugby Federation. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
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