Group B: Côte d’Ivoire or Rwanda vs Kenya in Côte d’Ivoire Group B: Morocco vs Côte d’Ivoire in Morocco Uganda Rugby captain Asuman Mugerwa talks to Debutant Daudi Semwami during this year’s Victoria Cup. This all comes at a time when Rugby Africa, the management body of Rugby in Africa has put out fixtures for the Men’s 15s competition. The statement reads ‘World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series participants Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Mexico, Tonga, Uganda and Zimbabwe will all take part in the Olympic repechage in June 2020 to try and secure their ticket to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.’ The final play-off tournament will be hosted alongside the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens event on 3-5 April, 2020.’īesides the Challenger Series, World Rugby announced the repechage tournament in which Uganda will participate to get a chance of joining their neighbors Kenya at the Olympics. They will be joined by three invitational teams from the Americas in Colombia, Mexico and Paraguay. The teams who will compete in the 2020 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series are Brazil, Chile, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Tonga, Uganda, Uruguay and Zimbabwe. Uganda Men’s 15s celebrate a try against their fierce Rivals, Zimbambwe. Thirteen nations have earned their place in the Challenger Series by finishing as the top ranked nations who are not already competing in the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series at their respective regional sevens competitions in 2019. In the official announcement, World Rugby announced: ‘The two legs of the inaugural World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series will be played in South America in Viña del Mar, Chile (15-16 February, 2020), and Montevideo, Uruguay (22-23 February, 2020).’
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