Four Teams Qualify for HSBC SVNS World Championship Series From SVNS Division 2

Four teams; Argentina & South Africa women and Germany and USA men, have qualified for the HSBC SVNS World Championship Series after SVNS Division 2 leg 2 in Montevideo, with one round still to play, and the China Women are still in with a chance.

Argentina’s women’s sevens squad won back-to-back HSBC SVNS 2 titles in Montevideo, while Spain and South Africa women finished second and third. The results meant South Africa also qualified

China are fourth in the standings and had very narrow losses to both Spain and Argentina this weekend, a heavy defeat to SA and wins over Brazil and Kenya.

Argentina (40 log points) and South Africa (34 log points) are through the Championship rounds, with Spain (34 points) looking set to finish third, with China (28 points) and Brazil (22 points) in a race to finish fourth and claim the final qualification berth.

The player of the tournament for the women was Argentina’s Maria Brigido Chamorro.

SA coach Cecil Afrika said, “We need to play matches at this level to get used to the intensity and quality as we are also in the process of building depth in our squad. We gave Shanidinè Bezuidenhout the opportunity to debut in this tournament and she did well, while someone like Lerato Makua, who has not played that many tournaments before, really stood out with her effort. She has now matured into a very good international sevens player, and that came from being exposed to this level of rugby.”

In the men’s competition, Germany and the USA qualified for the HSBC SVNS World Championship Series and the USA won the title in Montevideo and a perfect five wins from five matches at Estadio Charrua.

Kenya and Uruguay are in the third and fourth qualifying positions, with Belgium and Canada chasing them.

Photo Credit – World Rugby

HSBC SVNS World Championship Series sees legs played in Hong Kong (17-19 April), Valladolid (29-31 May) and Bordeaux (5-7 June).

All of the results can be seen here.

China Women’s 7s – HSBC SVNS Division 2 Montevideo Results

Results from Day#1 for the China Women 7s of the 2nd leg of the HSBC SVNS Division 2 in Montevideo

China 19-5 Kenya 

The Chinese opened their account with a win. They were trailing 0-5, but scored three second-half tries, including two late scores, to seal the win.

China Try Scorers: Gao Xiaoyang (11′), Le Zhang (13′), Chen Can (14′)

China 0-38 SA 

Much like in the opening leg in Nairobi, the Chinese suffered a big loss to the South African Women. They were 0-28 down at halftime before losing 0-38 with the South Africans running in 6 tries, which included a hat-trick for Ayanda Malinga.

Photo Credit – World Rugby

China 17-22 Argentina 

The Chinese women lost their second game of the day to Argentina and were behind 5-12 at the break. They came back to level it up at 17-17, but Argentina scored the winning try in Extra Time to claim the win.

China Try Scorers: Gao Xiaoyang (2′), Hua Beibei (13′), Qian Xin (14′)

China 22-15 Brazil

In a key game, China came out on top against Brazil and led 17-0 at halftime thanks to a Qian Xin hat trick.

Brazil came back in the second half, but a 4th try for China was enough to secure the win.

China Try Scorers: Qian Xin (3′, 5′, 6′), Le Zhang (11′)

Photo Credit – World Rugby

China 19-12 Spain 

China were behind at the break in this close game 5-14, with Qian Xin scoring again (her 5th of the weekend).

They nearly pulled off the comeback, but Spain held on for the win 

China Try Scorers: Qian Xin (5′), Gao Xiaoyang (9′)

Photo Credit – World Rugby

The standings after the first two legs can be seen here.

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