# 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.
| PS | Preliminary stage | CC | Cup & Challenge stage | PM | Placement matches | SF | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Fri 7 | Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sat 8 | Sun 9 | Sun 9 | Sun 9 | Sun 9 |
| Morning | Evening | Morning | Evening | Morning | Morning | Evening | Evening |
| PS | PS | CC | CC | PM | SF | B | F |
| 3 M | 6 M | 3 M | 6 M | 2 M | 2 M | 2 M | 2 M |

## Teams

A total of nine ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the women's tournament.
| Teams | App | Previous best performance |
| Argentina | 3rd | Silver medal (2014, 2018) |
| Bolivia | 2nd | Seventh place (2018) |
| Brazil | 3rd | Gold medal (2014, 2018) |
| Chile | 2nd | Fifth place (2014) |
| Colombia | 3rd | Fourth place (2014, 2018) |
| Paraguay | 3rd | Bronze medal (2018) |
| Peru | 2nd | Fifth place (2018) |
| Uruguay | 3rd | Bronze medal (2014) |
| Venezuela | 2nd | Seventh 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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 12 | +59 | 6 | Cup groups |
| 2 | Uruguay | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 4 | Cup groups |
| 3 | Peru | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 62 | −62 | 2 | Challenge group |
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 10:06
| Brazil | 33–12 | Uruguay |
| Try: Anne Crystyan (2) 1' c, 4' c Costa (2) 2' m, 11' c Furtado 10' c Con: Campos 1', 4' Mariana Nicolau 10', 11' | Report | Try: Verocai (2) 7' m, 8' c Con: Brum 8' |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 17:58
| Brazil | 38–0 | Peru |
| Try: Anne Crystyan 3' m Marina Fioravanti (2) 6' c, 10' c Alves 2T Lopes de Souza 2T Cardoso 14' Con: Campos 7', 10', 12' Mariana Nicolau 2T | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 20:35
| Peru | 0–24 | Uruguay |
| | Report | Try: Cruces 1T m Merli 6' m Petrik 9' c Verocai 2T c Con: Brum (2/2) 10', 2T |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Group 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Colombia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 7 | +66 | 6 | Cup groups |
| 2 | Chile | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 17 | +21 | 4 | Cup groups |
| 3 | Venezuela | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 94 | −87 | 2 | Challenge group |
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 10:28
| Colombia | 56–7 | Venezuela |
| Try: Muñoz 2' Córdoba (2) 3', 6' c Ibarra 5' c Tapias 2T m Soto (4) 2T m, 11 m, 13 m, 14 m Arzuaga 10' m Con: Pacheco 1T Mejía (2/2) 5', 7' | Report | Try: Camacho 3' c Con: Ramírez (1/1) 3' |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 17:36
| Colombia | 17–0 | Chile |
| Try: Ibarra 3' m Alzate 4' m Mejía 6' c Con: Lopera 6' | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 20:13
| Chile | 38–0 | Venezuela |
| Try: Rojas (2) 3' c, 13' m Ogalde 4' c Igor (2) 7' c, 8' c Badilla 11' m Con: Castañeda 3', 4', 9' Badilla 6' | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Group 3

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Argentina | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 0 | +65 | 6 | Cup groups |
| 2 | Paraguay | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 15 | +40 | 4 | Cup groups |
| 3 | Bolivia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 105 | −105 | 2 | Challenge group |
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 10:50
| Argentina | 50–0 | Bolivia |
| Try: González (2) 1' m, 3' c Medina (2) 5' c, 14' c Del Rosario 1T A. Moreno 9' c Mattus 11' m F. Moreno 13' c Con: González 4' Mattus 6', 9' Medina 13', 14' | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 18:20
| Argentina | 15–0 | Paraguay |
| Try: Medina 2' m F. Moreno (2) 6' m, 8' m | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) 20:57
| Paraguay | 55–0 | Bolivia |
| Try: Viveros 1' c Romero (3) 3' c, 6' c, 9' m González 5' c Cristaldo (2) 8' c, 2T m Gauto 12' m Denis 14' m Con: Viveros 1', 3', 5', 6', 8' | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

### 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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | +47 | 6 | Semi-finals |
| 2 | Paraguay | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 22 | −3 | 4 | Semi-finals |
| 3 | Chile | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 44 | −44 | 2 | Fifth place match |
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 10:06
| Chile | 0–19 | Paraguay |
| | Report | Try: Méndez 1' m Alfonso 2' c Romero 6' c Con: Viveros (2/3) 3', 6' |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 17:56
| Brazil | 22–0 | Paraguay |
| Try: Costa (2) 1' c, 2' m Silva (2) 7' m, 9' m Con: Campos 1' | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 20:33
| Brazil | 25–0 | Chile |
| Try: Silva 1T m Costa 1T m Alves (3) 7' m, 13' m, 14' m | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Cup group 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Argentina | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 7 | +13 | 6 | Semi-finals |
| 2 | Colombia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 24 | +2 | 4 | Semi-finals |
| 3 | Uruguay | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 29 | −15 | 2 | Fifth place match |
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 10:28
| Argentina | 10–0 | Uruguay |
| Try: González 1T m F. Moreno 4' m | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 18:18
| Colombia | 19–14 | Uruguay |
| Try: Alzate (2) 6' c, 10' c Mejía 13' m Con: Mejía 7' Lopera 10' | Report | Try: Petrik 1' c Verocai 3' c Con: Tellechea (2/2) 1', 4' |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 20:55
| Colombia | 7–10 | Argentina |
| Try: Alzate 5' c Con: Lopera (1/1) 6' | Report | Try: González 1T m F. Moreno 3' m |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Challenge group

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Peru | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 17 | +52 | 6 | Seventh place match |
| 2 | Venezuela | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 29 | +10 | 4 | Seventh place match |
| 3 | Bolivia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 67 | −62 | 2 | 9th place |
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 10:50
| Venezuela | 27–0 | Bolivia |
| Try: Zapata (3) 1' m, 7' m, 9' c Aguilar (2) 1T m, 13' m Con: Pérez 9' | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 18:40
| Peru | 40–5 | Bolivia |
| Try: Ruiz (2) 1' c, 14' m Chuquivala 2' c García 8' c Sánchez 10' c Márquez 13' c Con: Chuquivala 1', 2', 8' Jiménez 10', 13' | Report | Try: Suárez 6' m |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 21:17
| Peru | 29–12 | Venezuela |
| Try: García (2) 2' m, 13' c Jiménez 1T m Rios 5' c Correa 7' m Con: García 5' Chuquivala 13' | Report | Try: Ramírez (2) 4' c, 8' m Con: Camacho 4' |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

### 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.
| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 9 October | 9 October |
| Brazil | 28 |
| Brazil | 28 | 9 October | 9 October |
| Colombia | 5 | 9 October | 9 October |
| Colombia | 5 | Brazil | 17 |
| 9 October | 9 October | | Brazil | 17 |
| 9 October | 9 October | Paraguay | 5 |
| Argentina | 14 | Paraguay | 5 |
| Paraguay | 15 | | |
| Paraguay | 15 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 9 October | 9 October |
| | | Colombia | 14 |
| | | Argentina | 7 |
| Seventh place match | Seventh place match |
| 9 October | 9 October |
| Peru | 21 |
| Venezuela | 12 |
| Fifth place match | Fifth place match |
| 9 October | 9 October |
| Chile | 15 |
| Uruguay | 0 |

#### Semifinals

* 9 October 2022 (2022-10-09) 9:22
| Brazil | 28–5 | Colombia |
| Try: Silva 6' c Costa (2) 7' c, 10' c Furtado 12' c Con: Campos (4/4) 6', 8', 11', 12' | Report | Try: Pacheco 6' m |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción
* 9 October 2022 (2022-10-09) 9:44
| Argentina | 14–15 | Paraguay |
| Try: Brigido 5' c González 14' c Con: González (2/2) 5', 14' | Report | Try: Cristaldo (2) 1T m, 11' m Viveros 13' m |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Seventh place match

* 9 October 2022 (2022-10-09) 10:28
| Peru | 21–12 | Venezuela |
| Try: Márquez 1' c Rios 3' c Jiménez 6' c Con: Chuquivala (3/3) 1', 4', 6' | Report | Try: Aguilar 8' m Ramírez 10' c Con: Pérez 11' |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Fifth place match

* 9 October 2022 (2022-10-09) 10:06
| Chile | 15–0 | Uruguay |
| Try: Badilla 3' m Miranda (2) 6' m, 11' m | Report | |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Bronze medal match

* 9 October 2022 (2022-10-09) 19:25
| Colombia | 14–7 | Argentina |
| Try: Soto 8' c Ibarra 12' c Con: Lopera (2/2) 8', 12' | Report | Try: González 5' c Con: González (1/1) 6' |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

#### Gold medal match

* 9 October 2022 (2022-10-09) 20:15
| Brazil | 17–5 | Paraguay |
| Try: Costa (2) 6' c, 11' m Marina Fioravanti 14' m Con: Campos 6' | Report | Try: Romero 9' m |
* Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, Asunción

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team |
| | Brazil |
| | Paraguay |
| | Colombia |
| 4 | Argentina |
| 5 | Chile |
| 6 | Uruguay |
| 7 | Peru |
| 8 | Venezuela |
| 9 | Bolivia |
* 2022 Women's South American Rugby Sevens Champions
* Brazil Third 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

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Brazil 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 | Paraguay 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 | Colombia 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 |

## 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 on | Previous appearances in Pan American Games |
| Chile | 4 November 2017 | 0 (debut) |
| Brazil | 11 June 2022 | 2 (all) (2015, 2019) |
| Paraguay | 9 October 2022 | 0 (debut) |
| Colombia | 9 October 2022 | 2 (all) (2015, 2019) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.