| 2020 Women's South American Games Rugby Sevens Tournament | |
| Type: | women sevens |
| Host: | Paraguay |
| City: | Asunción |
| Venue: | Estadio Héroes de Curupayty |
| Date: | 7–9 October 2022 |
| Nations: | 9 |
| Champion: | BRA |
| Count: | 3 |
| Runnerup: | PAR |
| Third: | COL |
| Fourth: | ARG |
| Matches: | 24 |
| Tries: | 124 |
| Preceded By: | 2018 |
| Succeeded By: | 2026 |
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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3]
Paraguay and Colombia qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games as the Sudamérica Rugby representatives,[4] besides Chile which qualified automatically as hosts and Brazil which had previously qualified via the 2022 Sudamérica Rugby Women's Sevens.[5]
The tournament was held over a 3-day period, from 7 to 9 October.[6]
| PS | Preliminary stage | CC | Cup & Challenge stage | PM | Placement matches | SF | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sun 9 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | Evening | Morning | Evening | Morning | Evening | |||
| PS | PS | CC | CC | PM | SF | B | F | |
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
A total of nine ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the women's tournament.
| Teams | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd | Silver medal (2014, 2018) | ||
| 2nd | Seventh place (2018) | ||
| 3rd | Gold medal (2014, 2018) | ||
| 2nd | Fifth place (2014) | ||
| 3rd | Fourth place (2014, 2018) | ||
| 3rd | Bronze medal (2018) | ||
| 2nd | Fifth place (2018) | ||
| 3rd | Bronze medal (2014) | ||
| 2nd | Seventh place (2014) |
Each participating NOC had to enter a roster of 12 players (Technical manual Article 9).[1]
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.[7] The Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, which was remodeled in 2020, has a capacity for 3,000 spectators.[8] [9]
All match times are in PYST (UTC−3).[10]
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.
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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.
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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:
Winners of semi-finals played the gold medal match, while losers played the bronze medal match.
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| align=top | 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 | align=top | Cinthia Cristaldo Ingrid Alfonso María Benza Paula Denis María Ramos Lucero Viveros Chiara Báez Maira Méndez María Gauto Araceli Nicolini Liz Verónica Romero Romina González Head coach: Enrique Kneup | align=top | Maribel Mestra Laura Pacheco Carmen Ibarra Daniela Alzate Laura Álvarez Valeria Muñoz María Isabel Arzuaga Madi Córdoba Camila Lopera Laura Mejía Juliana Soto Valentina Tapias Head coach: Sebastián Mejía |
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.[4]
| Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous 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.