India women's national rugby sevens team
{{About||the men's team|India men's national rugby sevens team}}
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The India women's national sevens rugby union team is India's national representative in Rugby sevens.
History
Sevens was first played in India in 1886 at the Khajjiar Gymkhana.{{Cite web|url=https://scottishsevens.sport.blog/2022/06/02/scotland-to-india-the-spread-of-sevens/|title=Scotland to India: the spread of Sevens|date=June 2, 2022}}
They played their first international sevens rugby at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, where they finished seventh. India competed at the 2019 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series in the Trophy division and placed second overall.{{Cite web|date=2019-08-09|title=Indian Rugby sevens teams all set for Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy|url=https://www.asiarugby.com/2019/08/09/indian-rugby-sevens-teams/|access-date=2021-10-31|website=Asia Rugby|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2019-08-11|title='The fairy tale has just begun' - Indian women on a high after Asian sevens silver|url=https://www.espn.com/rugby/story/_/id/27366768/the-fairy-tale-just-begun-indian-women-high-asian-sevens-silver|access-date=2021-10-31|website=ESPN.com|language=en}}
India were runners-up at the 2023 Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy tournament in Dubai.{{Cite web |last=Nag |first=Utathya |date=2023-11-05 |title=Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy 2023: Indian women win silver, men finish fifth |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/asia-rugby-sevens-trophy-2023-india-results-men-women |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=olympics.com}}{{Cite web |date=2023-11-05 |title=Indian women's rugby team finishes runners-up at Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy |url=https://thebridge.in/rugby/indian-womens-rugby-team-runners-up-asia-rugby-sevens-44648 |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=thebridge.in |language=en}} They finished as runners up again in the same competition in 2024 this time held in Kathmandu.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/formidable-indian-womens-team-clinch-silver-in-asia-rugby-sevens-in-kathmandu/cid/2053590|title=Formidable: Indian women's team clinch silver in Asia Rugby Sevens in Kathmandu}}
Players
=Previous squad=
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|Squad to Squad at 2010 Asian Games{{cite web | url =http://www.gz2010.cn/info/ENG_ENG/RU/RUE133A_RUW400400@@@@@@@@ENG_number=5002934.html | title =Team Members | author =Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee | year =2009 | access-date =25 March 2012 | archive-date =13 April 2020 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20200413015421/http://www.gz2010.cn/info/ENG_ENG/RU/RUE133A_RUW400400@@@@@@@@ENG_number=5002934.html | url-status =dead }}
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- Sitara Indramohan
- V. Boman Bharucha
- Niharika Bal
- Bhagyalaxmi Barik
- Neha Pardeshi
- Surabhi Date
- Tapasi Nandi
- Sutapa Das
- Kalpana Das
- Sheetal Maurya
- Annapurna Bothate
- Yogita Marathe
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Tournament History
=Asian Championship=
- Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens Championship
- Asia Pacific Women's Sevens Championship
- 2010 Asia Pacific Women's Sevens Championship
- Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series
- :es:Asian Sevens Series Femenino
- 2023 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series
- 2019 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament
- 2023 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament
=Asian Games=
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| colspan="10" |Asian Games | |||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | {{Tooltip|P|Games played}} | {{Tooltip|W|Won}} | {{Tooltip|L|Lost}} | {{Tooltip|D|Drawn}} | PF | PA | PD |
| {{flagicon|CHN}} 2010 | 7th-8th Placing | 7th | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 26 | 206 | | |
| 180 | |||||||||
| {{flagicon|KOR}} 2014 | colspan="9" rowspan=1|Did not compete | ||||||||
| {{flagicon|INA}} 2018 | colspan="9" rowspan=1|Did not compete | ||||||||
| {{flagicon|CHN}} 2022 | 6th-7th placing | 7th | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 122 | | |
| 115 | |||||||||
| Total | 0 Title | 1/3 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 33 | 328 | -295 |
References
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{{Rugby union in India}}
{{National sports teams of India}}
{{Women's national rugby union sevens teams}}
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