Rugby sevens at the 2022 South American Games – Women's tournament

The women's tournament of the rugby sevens at the 2022 South American Games was held from 7 to 9 October 2022 at the Estadio Héroes de Curupayty in Luque, Paraguay, a sub-venue outside Asunción. It was the third edition of the rugby sevens women's tournament at the South American Games since its first appearance in Santiago 2014.

The tournament served as qualifier for the 2023 Pan American Games, with the top two teams (excluding Chile and Brazil) qualifying to the women's rugby sevens tournament.

The two-times defending champions Brazil successfully retained their title by winning the gold medal and thus their third South American Games women's rugby sevens title after beating the hosts Paraguay 17–5 in the final. Colombia beat Argentina with a 14–7 score to win the bronze medal.

Paraguay and Colombia qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games as the Sudamérica Rugby representatives, besides Chile which qualified automatically as hosts and Brazil which had previously qualified via the 2022 Sudamérica Rugby Women's Sevens.

Schedule The tournament was held over a 3-day period, from 7 to 9 October.

PSPreliminary stageCCCup & Challenge stagePMPlacement matchesSFSemi-finalsBBronze medal matchFGold medal match Fri 7 Sat 8 Sun 9MorningEveningMorningEveningMorningEveningPS PS CC CC PM SF B F3 6 3 6 2 2 2

Teams A total of nine ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the women's tournament.

TeamsPrevious best performance3rdSilver medal (2014, 2018)2ndSeventh place (2018)3rdGold medal (2014, 2018)2ndFifth place (2014)3rdFourth place (2014, 2018)3rdBronze medal (2018)2ndFifth place (2018)3rdBronze medal (2014)2ndSeventh place (2014)

Rosters

Each participating NOC had to enter a roster of 12 players (Technical manual Article 9).

Venue All matches were played at the Estadio Héroes de Curupayty located within the Parque Olímpico cluster in Luque, Paraguay and owned by the Paraguayan Olympic Committee. The Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, which was remodeled in 2020, has a capacity for 3,000 spectators.

Results All match times are in PYST (UTC−3).

Preliminary stage The preliminary stage consisted of three groups of 3 teams, each group was played under round-robin format with the top two teams progressing to the Cup groups stage and the third placed team of each group advancing to the Challenge group.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Cup & Challenge stage The Cup stage consisted of two groups of 3 teams, each group was played under round-robin format with the top two teams progressing to the semi-finals and the third placed team of each group advancing to the fifth place match. The challenge group consisted of three teams and was played under the same format, with the top to teams advancing to the seventh place match and the bottom team ocupping the ninth place in the general ranking.

Cup group 1

Cup group 2

Challenge group

Final stage The final stage consisted of the seventh place match, the fifth place match, the semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches. The semi-finals match-ups were:

Semifinal 1: Cup group 1 winners v Cup group 2 runners-up Semifinal 2: Cup group 2 winners v Cup group 1 runners-up

Winners of semi-finals played the gold medal match, while losers played the bronze medal match.

Semifinals

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

2022 Women's South American Rugby Sevens Champions BrazilThird title

Team roster: Mariana Nicolau, Luiza Campos, Eshyllen Eshy, Anne Crystyan, Thalia Costa, Isadora Lopes de Souza, Aline Furtado, Marina Fioravanti, Camilla Carvalho, Andressa Alves, Bianca Silva, Marcelle Souza Head coach: Will Broderick

Medalists GoldSilverBronzeMariana NicolauLuiza CamposEshyllen EshyAnne CrystyanThalia CostaIsadora Lopes de SouzaAline FurtadoMarina FioravantiCamilla CarvalhoAndressa AlvesBianca SilvaMarcelle SouzaHead coach: Will BroderickCinthia CristaldoIngrid AlfonsoMaría BenzaPaula DenisMaría RamosLucero ViverosChiara BáezMaira MéndezMaría GautoAraceli NicoliniLiz Verónica RomeroRomina GonzálezHead coach: Enrique KneupMaribel MestraLaura PachecoCarmen IbarraDaniela AlzateLaura ÁlvarezValeria MuñozMaría Isabel ArzuagaMadi CórdobaCamila LoperaLaura MejíaJuliana SotoValentina TapiasHead coach: Sebastián Mejía

Qualified teams for Pan American Games The following four teams from Sudámerica Rugby qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games women's rugby sevens tournament, including Chile which qualified as hosts and Brazil which had previously qualified by winning the 2022 Sudamérica Rugby Women's Sevens in June 2022.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in Pan American Games1 0 (debut) 2 (all) (2015, 2019) 0 (debut) 2 (all) (2015, 2019) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links ASU2022 Rugby sevens Teams Female at ASU2022 official website.