{"id":7285,"date":"2013-07-17T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2013-07-17T07:24:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T07:24:19","slug":"rugby-sevens-team-to-play-for-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"Rugby sevens team to play for bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/kazan_games.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7286\" alt=\"Print\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/kazan_games.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>The South African sevens rugby will compete for the bronze medal in the rugby sevens tournament at the World Student Games after going down in a narrow 17-14 defeat to hosts Russia in the semifinals, in Kazan, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clearance Khumalo dotted down to give the South Africans the early lead, but Russia hit back to take a 12-7 advantage into the interval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And while Khumalo scored again in the second half &#8212; both his tries were converted by Stefan de Villiers &#8212; the host nation managed to bag a surprise win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, in the quarterfinals, the SA men, who had gone unbeaten in the group stages, charged into a 21-7 half-time lead and held off some resistance from Belgium for a 26-12 victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa will face Great Britain, who were defeated 33-12 by France in their semifinal, in the bronze medal match on Wednesday, the final day of the Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Alistair Davis finished fifth with a score of 25 from 10 shots in the men&#8217;s double trap shooting semifinals, narrowly missing out on a place in the bronze medal contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Tuesday, the 20-year-old Olympian had been fourth best of the first-round qualifiers, progressing to the penultimate round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the pool, the SA 4x100m medley relay quartet &#8212; Richard Ellis, Nico Meyer, Leith Shankland and Giulio Zorzi &#8212; finished seventh in the final in 3:42:22. Russia secured the gold medal in 3:34.27. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African sevens rugby will compete for the bronze medal in the rugby sevens tournament at the World Student Games after going down in a narrow 17-14 defeat to hosts Russia in the semifinals, in Kazan, on Tuesday. Clearance Khumalo dotted down to give the South Africans the early lead, but Russia hit back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rugby sevens team to play for bronze&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,700],"tags":[1190,3979,66,12250,3981,3980],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport-news","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-sevens","tag-russia","tag-south-africa","tag-stefan-de-villiers","tag-world-student-games"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/kazan_games.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}