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MEN\u2019S RESULTS \u2013 DAY TWO<\/p>\nThe Sudamericano de Seven 2026 (SAR 7s) served as a high-stakes continental battleground on October 10 and 11, converging the region\u2019s top rugby talent at the Carlos Paz Rugby Club in Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina.<\/p>\n
The tournament carried immense structural weight for South American rugby, offering direct qualification slots for the prestigious World Rugby Sevens Challenger series and punching tickets to the Lima 2027 Pan American Games. Furthermore, a premier pathway was on the line for developing programs, as the top eight final finishers in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories successfully secured entry into the critical regional qualifiers for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
The Argentina Women\u2019s national rugby sevens team (Las Yaguaret\u00e9s) captured the regional crown by downing long-time continental powerhouse Brazil 19\u201310 in a fiercely contested final. Las Yaguaret\u00e9s laid their groundwork early on Day 2 with a crushing 39\u20130 win over Uruguay, maintaining a completely untouched try-line until the final showdown. In the title match, Brazil struck first to put the hosts under brief pressure, but Argentina quickly regrouped with resilient teamwork, replying with clutch tries from Candela Delgado, Tal\u00eda Rodich, and Antonella Reding to seal the historic championship on home soil.<\/p>\n
Los Pumas 7\u2019s mirrored the women\u2019s success by defeating Chile 24\u20135 in the Men\u2019s Final to claim the championship. Los Pumas 7\u2019s had to fight through a tighter-than-expected Gold Zone schedule earlier in the day, edging past a stubborn Uruguay squad 19\u201312 and outlasting Chile 21\u20137. In the final, the Argentine side relied on their trademark world-class tempo and physical breakdown play, using precise execution to secure decisive tries from Sebasti\u00e1n Dubuc, Santiago Vera Feld, Luciano Gonz\u00e1lez, and Santino Zangara to comfortably pull away for the gold.<\/p>\n
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MEN\u2019S RESULTS \u2013 DAY TWO<\/p>\n
Time
\nPhase
\nMatch & Result<\/p>\n
9:44 AM
\n9th Place Semifinal
\nEcuador 24\u20135 Honduras<\/p>\n
10:09 AM
\n9th Place Semifinal
\nDominican Republic 50\u20135 Guatemala<\/p>\n
10:34 AM
\n5th Place Semifinal
\nParaguay 7\u201343 Venezuela<\/p>\n
10:59 AM
\n5th Place Semifinal
\nBrazil 26\u20135 Peru<\/p>\n
11:24 AM
\nGold Zone
\nChile 20\u20137 Colombia<\/p>\n
11:46 AM
\nGold Zone
\nArgentina 19\u201312 Uruguay<\/p>\n
1:36 PM
\n11th Place Match
\nHonduras 17\u201320 Guatemala<\/p>\n
2:01 PM
\n9th Place Match
\nEcuador 0\u201341 Dominican Republic<\/p>\n
2:26 PM
\nGold Zone
\nColombia 19\u201319 Uruguay<\/p>\n
2:48 PM
\nGold Zone
\nArgentina 21\u20137 Chile<\/p>\n
3:10 PM
\n7th Place Match
\nPeru 10\u201312 Paraguay<\/p>\n
4:25 PM
\n5th Place Match
\nBrazil 33\u20137 Venezuela<\/p>\n
5:40 PM
\n3rd Place Match
\nColombia 5\u201314 Uruguay<\/p>\n
6:05 PM
\n1st Place Match
\nArgentina 24\u20135 Chile<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S RESULTS \u2013 DAY TWO<\/p>\n
Time
\nGroup \/ Phase
\nMatch & Result<\/p>\n
9:00 AM
\nPool B
\nPeru 22\u201310 Ecuador<\/p>\n
9:22 AM
\nPool A
\nGuatemala 10\u201315 Dominican Republic<\/p>\n
12:08 PM
\nPool B
\nColombia 36\u20130 Ecuador<\/p>\n
12:30 PM
\nPool B
\nBrazil 32\u20135 Chile<\/p>\n
12:52 PM
\nPool A
\nParaguay 17\u20137 Dominican Republic<\/p>\n
1:14 PM
\nPool A
\nArgentina 39\u20130 Uruguay<\/p>\n
3:35 PM
\n7th Place Match
\nDominican Republic 0\u201336 Chile<\/p>\n
4:00 PM
\n5th Place Match
\nUruguay 7\u201312 Peru<\/p>\n
4:50 PM
\n3rd Place Match
\nParaguay 0\u201322 Colombia<\/p>\n
5:15 PM
\n1st Place Match
\nArgentina 19\u201310 Brazil<\/p>\n
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Foto: Sudamericano Rugby<\/p>\n
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CONTINENTAL QUALIFICATION AND PATHWAYS<\/p>\n
The tournament outcomes heavily restructured the South American rugby landscape across several global pathways. Because the dominant Argentine men are already core members of the top-tier HSBC SVNS series, the runner-up Chile Men\u2019s squad officially secured the coveted promotion slots. On the women\u2019s side, Las Yaguaret\u00e9s claimed the direct ticketing by winning the tournament outright.<\/p>\n
Both respective non-core programs earned direct entries into the global tier-two Challenger series and punched their tickets to the Lima 2027 Pan American Games. Additionally, the top eight teams from both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s final standings successfully qualified for the specialized Olympic regional qualifying tournament taking place in July 2027. For the men, this features Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Peru. For the women, the qualifying bracket consists of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, and the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION<\/p>\n
The lower-ranked teams brought immense passion and fierce competition to the tournament, fighting hard for final placements and crucial developmental experience. In the men\u2019s division, the Dominican Republic emerged as the standout among the lower seeds, dominating the ninth-place bracket with a commanding 50\u20135 semifinal win over Guatemala before shutting out Ecuador 41\u20130 in the placement final to secure ninth place overall.<\/p>\n
Ecuador locked in tenth place in the men\u2019s bracket after earning a solid 24\u20135 semifinal victory against Honduras. Meanwhile, Guatemala bounced back from their earlier defeats in a thrilling, tight 20\u201317 battle against Honduras to claim eleventh place, leaving the Honduran squad at the bottom of the men\u2019s standings.<\/p>\n
On the women\u2019s side, Chile showed great resilience after missing out on the top-tier brackets, bouncing back on the second day to overwhelm the Dominican Republic 36\u20130 and secure seventh place overall. The Dominican Republic women finished eighth, while Guatemala and Ecuador rounded out the bottom of the table, using the tournament as a valuable building block for their rising national programs.<\/p>\n
TOURNAMENT UPS AND UNDERS<\/p>\n
The clear overperformer of the weekend was the Colombia Women\u2019s squad, who shook off a tough opening day to march through consolation brackets and decisively beat Paraguay 22\u20130 to lock down a well-earned Bronze medal. On the men\u2019s side, Venezuela put together an admirable lower-tier showing, completely dominating Paraguay 43\u20137 in their ranking semifinal before finishing a respectable 6th overall behind Brazil.<\/p>\n
Conversely, the Paraguay Men\u2019s squad heavily underperformed relative to their regional seeding; after failing to generate offensive rhythm in the Cup group phase on Day 1, they suffered a heavy blowout loss to Venezuela and narrowly scraped a 12\u201310 win over Peru just to salvage a 7th-place finish.<\/p>\n
This tournament provided a definitive signaling that Brazil\u2019s historical absolute hegemony over South American women\u2019s rugby sevens has officially drawn to a close. While As Yaras historically went decades without losing a match on the continent, Las Yaguaret\u00e9s proved that their recent structural growth is a permanent shift. Argentina out-tackled and out-paced Brazil in the critical moments of the 19\u201310 final, solidifying the fact that South America is now a genuine two-team regional rivalry at the summit.<\/p>\n
STAND-OUT PLAYERS<\/p>\n
Argentina\u2019s Candela Delgado paced the field as a lethal finisher, highlighted by an explosive hat-trick against Guatemala and scoring the critical turnaround try in the final against Brazil. Cristal Escalante and Mariel Velay also finished closely behind, with Velay scoring an invaluable brace during the morning knockout rounds against Uruguay.<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s competition, star Argentine Luciano Gonz\u00e1lez anchored the men\u2019s scoring charts with several brute-force long-range tries across both days, capped off by an inescapable try in the final to seal the tournament victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sudamericano de Seven 2026 (SAR 7s) served as a high-stakes continental battleground on October 10 and 11,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,240178,466553,446,58463],"class_list":["post-924877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-sudamerica-rugby","tag-sudamerica-rugby-sevens","tag-video","tag-womens-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}