Mar del Plata Sevens

The Mar del Plata Sevens (Seven Mar del Plata in Spanish) is an international rugby sevens competition played in Mar del Plata, Argentina since 1995. The tournament was one of the events in the World Rugby Sevens Series in 2000 and 2002.

Mar del Plata Sevens

Seven Mar del Plata logo
Sport	Rugby sevens
Founded	1995
No. of teams	8 (2016)
Most recent champion(s)	Argentina

International tournament

International 7s and World Series: 1995 to 2002

Inspired by the success of Uruguay's Punta del Este Sevens, which hosted many of the world's best teams during the 1990s, the Argentine Rugby Union introduced an international tournament of their own in 1995. The inaugural Mar del Plata International Sevens was won by New Zealand, defeating Fiji in a closely matched final by 26–21.[1] In 2000, the tournament was included in World Sevens Series I, the first edition of the worldwide circuit for seven-a-side rugby.[2] The following year Mar del Plata was host of the Rugby World Cup Sevens.

Year	Venue	Gold Cup [lower-alpha 1]			Placings [lower-alpha 1]		Refs
	International 7s	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Silver Cup	Bronze Cup
1995	Estadio José María​ Minella	New Zealand	26–21	Fiji	Canada	n/a	[1] [3]
No international sevens tournament in 1996 or 1997
1998	Estadio José María​ Minella	New Zealand	40–19	Argentina	Spain	n/a	[4] [5]
1999	Estadio José María​ Minella	New Zealand	38–5	France	Italy	n/a	[6] [7]
2000	Estadio José María​ Minella	Fiji	26–14	New Zealand	Argentina	Spain	[2]
2001 World Cup	Estadio José María​ Minella	New Zealand	31–12	Australia	Russia	Chile
2002	Estadio José María​ Minella	Fiji	24–7	South Africa	Australia	France	[8]

Key:
 Dark blue line: tournament included in the World Rugby Sevens Series.

Selected teams invitational event: 2003 onward

After 2002, when no longer on the World Sevens circuit, the international sevens tournament at Mar del Plata was contested by invited national teams – mainly from the Americas but some further afield – as well as by selected and invitational sides (mostly representative teams from Argentina).

During this era, the international tournament was sometimes hosted in conjunction with other competitions featuring national teams. This was the case in 2010 when the schedule included the Sudamérica Rugby Sevens, and teams from that tournament were joined by other select sides including from United States and South Africa to contest the Mar del Plata international sevens title.[9] In 2015, Mar del Plata hosted a Pan American Games qualification event alongside the international sevens tournament.[10]

Winners since 2010 (details might not be complete):

Year	Venue	Cup final			Placings		Refs
	International 7s	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third	Fourth
No international sevens tournament
2010	Estadio José María​ Minella	SA 7s Academy	29–7	Argentina	Uruguay	Brazil	[9]
No international sevens tournament
2013	Estadio José María​ Minella	Chile	14–12	Buenos Aires	Salta [es]	Entre Ríos	[11]
2014[lower-alpha 2]	Estadio Justo Román	Argentina Pampas	35–12	Buenos Aires	Salta [es]	Chile	[13] [14] [15]
2015[lower-alpha 3]	predio de Salvador Tatore Vuoso [es]	Argentina	26–21	Litoral 7s [lower-alpha 4]	Mar del Plata	USA Falcons	[10] [17] [18]
2016	Parque Camet [es]	Argentina	14–7	SA 7s Academy	Chile	Brazil	[19]

Club and Invitational

Year	Venue	Cup final			Placings		Refs
	Seven de Verano	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Silver Cup	Bronze Cup
2017	IPR Sporting [es]	Atlético Rosario	14–7	Bruto Mendoza	Universitario RC		[20]
2018	IPR Sporting [es]	Atlético Rosario	10–0	Taraguy	Jockey de Rosario	n/a	[21] [22]
2019	IPR Sporting [es]	Córdoba Athletic	27–0	Hindú	Kingfish	n/a	[23]
2020	IPR Sporting [es]	Uruguay	10–7	Duendes	Chile	Córdoba Athletic	[24] [25]

Women's tournament

Winners since 2014 (details might not be complete):

Year	Venue	Cup final			Placings		Refs
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third	Fourth
2013	The women's cup was not contested in 2013.						[11]
2014	Estadio Justo Román	Argentina	38–0	Uruguay	Paraguay	Chile	[13]
2015	predio de Salvador Tatore Vuoso [es]	Argentina	^round [lower-alpha 5]  robin	Colombia	Venezuela	Chile	[10]
2016	Tournament scheduled for January 2016.

Notes

1. Gold, Silver and Bronze cups are the nominal trophies for many rugby sevens tournaments in South America. These are generally equivalent to the Cup, Plate and Bowl – for first, fifth and ninth place, respectively – as awarded in the traditional sevens tournament with sixteen teams. For an event with a different number of teams or divisions, however, these trophies may awarded differently.
2. The 2014 tournament was intended to be for national teams only but Brazil and Uruguay focused instead on the Viña Sevens which offered qualifying spots for the 2014 Hong Kong Sevens. So Argentina, Chile and Paraguay competed at Mar del Plata, along with five UAR affiliated unions.[12]
3. The international sevens for 2015 was hosted at the Aldosivi club's premises in conjunction with two other tournaments to determine qualifying places for the Pan American Games in Toronto later that year: one event for men and one for women.[10] For more details, see - 2015 Mar del Plata Sevens
4. Litoral 7 is a combination of players from the Rosario, Entrerriana, and Santafesina rugby unions.[16]
5. The 2015 women's competition was played as a Pan American qualifier over two round robin days, with the two top placed teams qualifying for the Pan Am Games rugby sevens. Argentina and Colombia qualified.[10]

References

1. 1995 Mar del Plata 7s Rugby 7s.
2. 2000 Mar Del Plata 7s Rugby 7s.
3. Annual Report (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). Unión Argentina de Rugby. 1995. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2017.
4. "II Seven Internacional de Mar del Plata". Unión Argentina de Rugby (in Spanish). 1998. Archived from the original on 2 October 2000. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
5. Annual Report (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). Unión Argentina de Rugby. 1998. pp. 32–33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2018.
6. "III Seven Internacional de Mar del Plata". Unión Argentina de Rugby (in Spanish). 1999. Archived from the original on 2 October 2000. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
7. "Annual Report" (PDF). Unión Argentina de Rugby. 1999. pp. 38–40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2018.
8. 2002 Mar Del Plata 7s Rugby 7s.
9. "Finalizó Seven Sudamericano e Internacional". Rugby Noticias (in Spanish). 8 January 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
10. "Brazil and Chile qualify for Pan" (in Portuguese). Portal do Rugby. 10 January 2015. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
11. "Chile and Duendes celebrated in Mar del Plata" (in Spanish). ESPN deportes. 30 January 2013.
12. "Mar del Plata Sevens sem Tupis" (in Portuguese). Portal do Rugby. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014.
13. "Argentina wins everything in Mar del Plata Sevens" (in Portuguese). Portal do Rugby. 13 January 2014. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.
14. "Seven de Mar del Plata - Resultados: Día 2". A Plemo Rugby (in Spanish). 13 January 2014.
15. "Seven de Mar del Plata - Resultados: Día 1". A Plemo Rugby (in Spanish). 13 January 2014. Archived from the original on 28 December 2018.
16. Fixtures (in Spanish). Handoff.
17. "Seven de Mar del Plata: la primera jornada". ESPN (in Spanish). 10 January 2015. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.
18. "Seven MDQ: Los Pumas, campeones". ESPN (in Spanish). 12 January 2015. Archived from the original on 28 December 2018.
19. "Argentina victorious over South Africa Academy in Cup Final of Mar Del Plata Sevens in South America". UR7s. 11 January 2016. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016.
20. "Atlético del Rosario se bañó en oro". La Capital (in Spanish). Mar del Plata. 23 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
21. "Plaza bicampeón del Seven de la Feliz". El Ciudadano (in Spanish). Rosario. 22 January 2018. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018.
22. "Atlético del Rosario, bicampeón del 53º Seven de Sporting". 0223 (in Spanish). 22 January 2018. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
23. "Córdoba Athletic, el gran ganador del Seven de Verano". La Capital (in Spanish). Mar del Plata. 20 January 2019. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019.
24. "El seleccionado de Uruguay fue campeón en el Seven de Verano". La Capital (in Spanish). Mar del Plata. 19 January 2020. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
25. "Los Cóndores 7 celebran en Mar del Plata". Latercera (in Spanish). 20 January 2020. Archived from the original on 21 January 2020.

External links

• Rugby Mar del Plata – website of the tournament host