Uruguay national rugby sevens team
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| Union | Uruguayan Rugby Union | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Teros | ||
| Emblem(s) | Southern lapwing | ||
| Coach(es) | Luis Pedro Achard | ||
| Captain(s) | Gabriel Puig | ||
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The Uruguay national rugby union sevens is a minor national sevens side.
At the South American Sevens, Uruguay has won in 2012 and resulted runner-up six times. The team has resulted fourth at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games.
They participated in the 2014 Hong Kong Sevens in the World Series Qualifier. They qualified for the quarterfinals, finishing second in their pool, but lost out to Russia 21-14.[1] At the 2015 Hong Kong Sevens, they claimed wins over Brazil and Mexico and losses to Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea. The team did not qualify to the 2016 Hong Kong Sevens.
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Tournament history
Summer Olympics
| Olympics Games record | |||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
 2016 |
To Be Determined | ||||||||
| Total | 0 Titles | 0/0 | - | - | - | - | |||
Pan American Games
| Pan American Games record | |||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
 2011 |
Semifinals | 4th | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||
 2015 |
Semifinals | 4th | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Total | 0 Titles | 0/2 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 0 | |||
Rugby World Cup Sevens
| World Cup record | |||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
 1993 |
Did not participate | - | - | - | - | - | |||
 1997 |
Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | |||
 2001 |
Did not qualify | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 2005 |
Bowl Quarterfinals | 21st | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
 2009 |
Bowl Semifinals | 19th | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |||
 2013 |
Bowl Semifinals | 19th | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Total | 0 Titles | 3/6 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 0 | |||
Current Squad
Squad to 2015 Hong Kong Sevens.[2]
- Gabriel Puig (C)
- Nicolás Freitas
- Leandro Leivas
- Guillermo Lijstenstein
- Rodrigo Silva
- Tomás Jolivet
- Santiago Gibernau
- Alejo Durán
- Ian Schmidt
- Joaquín Prada
- Alfonso Falcón
- Sebastián Schroeder
