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Information on the South Africa teams competing at Paris 2024, including squad details.

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South Africa: Fact file

Form guide

South Africa's women's team finished the regular season in 11th and travelled to Madrid needing to win back their core team status in the SVNS Play-off, a feat they did not manage to achieve as they lost out to Spain 22-0 in the decisive match. However, they travel to Paris buoyed by the prospect of playing a first-ever Olympic tournament.

South Africa's men qualified for Paris 2024 at the final opportunity, the repechage competition in Monaco, beating Great Britain 14-5 in a tense men’s final. Earlier in the season, they won the opening event of SVNS 2024 in Dubai but failed to maintain that level and finished the regular season in seventh place, retaining their core team status. They finished the season on a high by beating Australia 24-21 to finish fifth at the season-ending Grand Final in Madrid, momentum they took into the repechage competition.

Star dust

Sevens commentator and reporter Rob Vickerman says: "Of all the women's sevens players, Nadine Roos is likely to cover the most grass in Paris. The cross-fit champion continually motivates her team with boundless energy. In the men's side, although he was ultimately beaten to the gong by Antoine Dupont, Quewin Nortje was nominated for SVNS Newcomer of Year. He top-scored for South Africa with 90 points ahead of the influential Selvyn Davids (78) and both are likely to be key players in Paris, if fit and well."

Road to Paris 2024

South Africa’s women won the Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens regional qualifying tournament in Tunisia, beating Zimbabwe (26-0), Uganda (19-0) and Tunisia (27-7) in pool play before rounding off the tournament with a 12-7 win against Kenya. The country's men qualified for Paris 2024 at the last chance saloon, the Monaco repechage, beating Great Britain 14-5 in a tense men’s final.

Previous Olympics

While South Africa's women have never competed at an Olympic Games, the country's men competed at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, taking bronze in Brazil. 


 

Women's Squad

Byrhandre Leigh-She

Dolf

Age 21
D.O.B 2003-07-04
Height 165cm
Weight 61kg

Zintle

Mpupha

Age 30
D.O.B 1993-12-25
Height 161cm
Weight 69kg

Elizabetha Magdalena

Janse van Rensburg

Age 30
D.O.B 1994-09-28
Height 178cm
Weight 78kg

Shiniqwa

Lamprecht

Age 21
D.O.B 2003-04-24
Height 0cm
Weight 0kg

Liske

Lategan

Age 25
D.O.B 1998-11-25
Height 171cm
Weight 69kg

Veroeshka Jasmine

Grain

Age 33
D.O.B 1990-12-11
Height 165cm
Weight 62kg

Maria

Tshiremba

Age 28
D.O.B 1995-12-29
Height 167cm
Weight 65kg

Sizophila Noluthando

Solontsi

Age 32
D.O.B 1992-03-09
Height 162cm
Weight 74kg

Marlize

de Bruin

Age 29
D.O.B 1994-11-11
Height 168cm
Weight 68kg

Ayanda

Malinga

Age 26
D.O.B 1998-06-23
Height 167cm
Weight 68kg

Nadine

Roos

Age 28
D.O.B 1996-05-09
Height 164cm
Weight 62kg

Kemisetso Shalene

Baloyi

Age 26
D.O.B 1998-03-08
Height 159cm
Weight 59kg
Men's Squad

Ryan

Oosthuizen

Age 29
D.O.B 1995-05-22
Height 189cm
Weight 92kg

Shaun Ray-Gerald

Williams

Age 26
D.O.B 1998-04-13
Height 174cm
Weight 78kg

Tristan

Leyds

Age 27
D.O.B 1997-05-24
Height 182cm
Weight 72kg

Siviwe Sonwabile

Soyizwapi

Age 31
D.O.B 1992-12-07
Height 178cm
Weight 88kg

Shilton Clayton

van Wyk

Age 24
D.O.B 1999-12-22
Height 175cm
Weight 74kg

Selvyn

Davids

Age 30
D.O.B 1994-03-26
Height 172cm
Weight 75kg

Ronald Dean

Brown

Age 29
D.O.B 1995-09-02
Height 175cm
Weight 75kg

Christiaan

Pretorius

Age 23
D.O.B 2001-02-19
Height 185cm
Weight 92kg

Mogamat Zain

Davids

Age 27
D.O.B 1997-05-04
Height 182cm
Weight 100kg

Rosko Shane

Specman

Age 35
D.O.B 1989-04-28
Height 175cm
Weight 80kg

Christoffel

Grobbelaar

Age 24
D.O.B 2000-05-25
Height 192cm
Weight 95kg

Impi Brecher

Visser

Age 29
D.O.B 1995-05-30
Height 188cm
Weight 90kg