The Argentina women's national rugby sevens team has been the second most successful team in South America after Brazil. At the CONSUR Women's Sevens, Argentina has been runner-up three times.
History
They have won the 2012, 2013 and 2015 Seven de la República. Argentina participated in the 2015
Hong Kong Women's Sevens
The Hong Kong Women's Sevens held the first women's international rugby sevens tournament in 1997, and has since become an annual event. The 2020 edition marked the start of a new era for the Hong Kong Women's Sevens. For the first time, the tou ...
, becoming the 38th nation to compete in Hong Kong since 1997. They were pooled with
Canada
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,
Samoa
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and Mexico.
The team qualified to the
2016 Final Olympic Qualification Tournament. They were knocked out of the Cup quarter-finals by Russia. Argentina competed at the
2019 Sudamérica Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Peru
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, finishing in third place and qualifying for the
Repechage tournament in
Monaco
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.
Argentina announced ahead of the 2021
Sudamérica Women's Sevens that their new nickname was ''Las Yaguaretés''. In 2024, they participated in the
World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series
The World Rugby Sevens Challenger (formerly the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series) is an annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national teams run by World Rugby that includes men's and women's events. Sponsored by banking group HSBC, i ...
; they placed third in the first round of the series which took place in
Dubai
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. They finished as runners-up at the
2024 Sevens Challenger Series and secured their place at the new
SVNS
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Play-off promotion and relegation competition in
Madrid
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.
Players
Argentina's squad to the
2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series:
References
External links
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{{Women's national rugby union sevens teams
Women's national rugby sevens teams
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Rugby union in Argentina