2019 Africa Women's Sevens

The 2019 Africa Women's Sevens was a women's rugby sevens tournament held in Monastir, Tunisia on 12–13 October 2019.[1]

2019 Africa Women's Sevens
Hosts Tunisia
Date12–13 October
Nations10
Final positions
Champions South Africa
Runners-up Kenya
Third Madagascar
2018
2022

The tournament acted as qualification for the 2020 Hong Kong Women's Sevens, which in turns serves as a qualification tournament for the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.

The tournament also acted as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

South Africa won the tournament and qualified for the Hong Kong Sevens along with Kenya. South Africa declined Olympics qualification so Kenya earned the automatic qualifying spot.[2]

Teams

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Pool stage

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The top two teams in each pool as well as the two best 3rd ranked teams qualify for the cup quarterfinals.[3]

Legend
Advance to Cup quarterfinals
Advance to Challenge Trophy semifinals

Pool A

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
  Kenya 3 3 0 0 123 0 +123 9
  Senegal 3 2 0 1 36 56 −20 7
  Ghana 3 1 0 2 22 63 −41 5
  Botswana 3 0 0 3 20 82 −62 3
12 Oct 2019 Senegal   19–10   Botswana Jemmal, Tunisia  
10:28
12 Oct 2019 Kenya   36–0   Ghana Jemmal, Tunisia  
10:50
12 Oct 2019 Senegal   17–10   Ghana Jemmal, Tunisia  
13:04
12 Oct 2019 Kenya   51–0   Botswana Jemmal, Tunisia  
13:26
12 Oct 2019 Botswana   10–12   Ghana Jemmal, Tunisia  
15:38
12 Oct 2019 Kenya   36–0   Senegal Jemmal, Tunisia  
16:00

Pool B

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
  South Africa 3 3 0 0 99 0 +99 9
  Uganda 3 2 0 1 25 47 −22 7
  Zimbabwe 3 1 0 2 17 48 −31 5
  Zambia 3 0 0 3 17 63 −46 3
12 Oct 2019 Zimbabwe   12–7   Zambia Jemmal, Tunisia  
9:44
12 Oct 2019 Uganda   0–32   South Africa Jemmal, Tunisia  
10:06
12 Oct 2019 Zimbabwe   0–31   South Africa Jemmal, Tunisia  
12:20
12 Oct 2019 Uganda   15–10   Zambia Jemmal, Tunisia  
12:42
12 Oct 2019 Zambia   0–36   South Africa Jemmal, Tunisia  
14:54
12 Oct 2019 Uganda   10–5   Zimbabwe Jemmal, Tunisia  
15:16

Pool C

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
  Madagascar 3 3 0 0 89 7 +82 9
  Tunisia 3 2 0 1 76 14 +62 7
  Morocco 3 1 0 2 41 65 −24 5
  Mauritius 3 0 0 3 0 120 −120 3
12 Oct 2019 Madagascar   34–0   Morocco Jemmal, Tunisia  
9:00
12 Oct 2019 Tunisia   38–0   Mauritius Jemmal, Tunisia  
9:22
12 Oct 2019 Madagascar   41–0   Mauritius Jemmal, Tunisia  
11:36
12 Oct 2019 Tunisia   31–0   Morocco Jemmal, Tunisia  
11:58
12 Oct 2019 Morocco   41–0   Mauritius Jemmal, Tunisia  
14:10
12 Oct 2019 Tunisia   7–14   Madagascar Jemmal, Tunisia  
14:32

Knockout stage

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Challenge Trophy

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
13 Oct 2019 – 10:58 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
 
  Ghana 29
 
13 Oct 2019 – 14:26 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Mauritius 10
 
  Ghana 21
 
13 Oct 2019 – 11:20 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Zambia 14
 
  Zambia 24
 
 
  Botswana 5
 
Eleventh Place
 
 
13 Oct 2019 – 14:04 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
 
  Mauritius 17
 
 
  Botswana 22

5th place

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
13 Oct 2019 – 12:36 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
 
  Morocco 12
 
13 Oct 2019 – 15:42 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Senegal 17
 
  Senegal 5
 
13 Oct 2019 – 12:58 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Uganda 12
 
  Uganda 7
 
 
  Zimbabwe 0
 
Seventh Place
 
 
13 Oct 2019 – 15:20 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
 
  Morocco 22
 
 
  Zimbabwe 12
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
13 Oct 2019 – 9:30 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
 
  South Africa 42
 
13 Oct 2019 – 13:20 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Morocco 0
 
  South Africa 29
 
13 Oct 2019 – 9:52 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Madagascar 0
 
  Madagascar 24
 
13 Oct 2019 – 16:30 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Senegal 5
 
  South Africa 15
 
13 Oct 2019 – 10:14 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Kenya 14
 
  Uganda 0
 
13 Oct 2019 – 13:42 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Tunisia 33
 
  Tunisia 0
 
13 Oct 2019 – 10:36 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Kenya 19 Third place
 
  Kenya 36
 
13 Oct 2019 – 16:04 – Jemmal, Tunisia
 
  Zimbabwe 5
 
  Madagascar 5
 
 
  Tunisia 0
 

Final standings

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Legend
Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Qualified for the Final Qualification Tournament.
Rank Team
    South Africa
    Kenya
    Madagascar
4   Tunisia
5   Uganda
6   Senegal
7   Morocco
8   Zimbabwe
9   Ghana
10   Zambia
11   Botswana
12   Mauritius


References

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  1. ^ "2019 Rugby Africa Women's Seven Kicks Off its First Day on a High Note". October 13, 2019. Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
  2. ^ "Kenya qualify for Tokyo 2020 despite Rugby Africa Women's Sevens final defeat". www.insidethegames.biz. October 13, 2019. Archived from the original on October 13, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)