The 2015 Women's Africa Cup Sevens was a women's rugby sevens tournament for the continental championship of Africa and a qualification tournament for

rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics 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. The usual laws of ...

. The competition was held in Kempton Park,

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on 26–27 September 2015. It was the fifth all-continental

African Women's Sevens Championship The Africa Women's Sevens is the continental championship for women's international rugby sevens in Africa. The tournament sanctioned and sponsored by Rugby Africa (previously CAR) which is the rugby union governing body for the continent. The ...

, hosting teams from both Northern and Southern Africa. South Africa, as the tournament winner, qualified directly for the Olympic Games but their

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decided not to send a team so the runner-up, Kenya, took their place. The next three place-getters, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and Tunisia progressed to the final qualifying competition to play-off for inclusion in the 2016 Games.

Teams

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Pool Stage

Pool A

: * 57-0 * 19-5 * 60-0 * 37-0 * 17-7 * 33-0 * 36-0 * 33-12 * 39-0 * 15-10

Pool B

* 46-7 * 15-12 * 52-0 * 47-0 * 14-5 * 19 -7 * 43-7 * 40-0 * 33-0 * 32-0

Placement Stage

Bowl (9th/10th Place) * 5-12 Plate (5th/8th Place) ''Semi-finals'' * 10-15 (After Extra Time) * 0-43 ''7th/8th Place'' * 28-0 ''Plate Final (5th/6th Place)'' * 0-15 Cup (1st/4th Place) ''Semi-finals'' * 34-0 * 0-39 ''3rd/4th Place'' * 0-33 ''Final'' * 31-5

Final standings

South Africa will not participate in the 2016 Olympics. Previously

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chief executive Tubby Reddy had stated that winning the continental qualifier would not be enough. Kenya, as the second-placed team in the African qualifiers, advance to the Olympics. Madagascar, the fifth-place finisher in qualifying, was named as a replacement.

References

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