Tunisia women’s sevens rugby holds successful solidarity camp

Tunisia women’s sevens rugby event hailed a success

JOHANNESBURG, May 10 (ANA) – Tunisia held a successful women’s sevens rugby solidarity camp in Tunis over the weekend.

With the Sevens Repechage (Olympic qualifier) tournament just around the corner, both Tunisia and Madagascar national teams were able to achieve some competitive preparation.

Although the Kenyan national team was not able to make it for the last two days tournament, the training days proved beneficial for all teams.

On Friday, the Madagascar national team started fast out of the blocks beating the host team 19-10 during the first match of the first day of the tournament.

Later, Tunisia battled back for a hard-fought 17-12 victory over the Malagasy team in the second and last game of the day.

On Saturday, the closing ceremony was attended by Khaled Babbou, the president of Rugby Africa, Shinsuke Shimizu, the Japanese Ambassador to Tunisia and Aref Belkhiria, the president of Tunisia Rugby who declared the session open.

The Tunisian ladies lost 12-5 to the Malagasy in a tight contest.

Then, in what was described as the most exciting game of the day, the Tunisian ‘Gazelles’ played their best rugby with five great tries, with two conversion. Through no lack of effort and character from the Makis, Tunisian players were convincing and provided a fitting conclusion to the Women’s Sevens Solidarity Camp.

The referees were praised for their competent officiation during the camp. They held elaborate preparations and showed good skills throughout the matches. – African News Agency (ANA), Editing by Michael Sherman