Cape Town Sevens: Pressure on as Blitzboks aim to break 8-year drought at home event

09 Dec 2023

Herman Mostert

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Head coach Sandile Ngcobo missed the Blitzboks' trip to Dubai due to an Achilles injury, but he’s back for this weekend's Cape Town Sevens. (Photo by Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images)

The Springbok Sevens side enter this weekend's Cape Town Sevens eager to end a dry spell at their home event.

The Blitzboks' last home triumph came in 2015 - when the event was staged in the Mother City for the first time.

Since then, England (2016), New Zealand (2017), Fiji (2018), New Zealand (2019) and Samoa (2022) took home the gold medal in Cape Town. (The event wasn't staged in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19).

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