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The Rugby World Cup Sevens is the world championship competition for the sevens variant of rugby union and, since 2016, is the highest level of competition in the sport outside of the Summer Olympics.
The tournament was first staged at Edinburgh, Scotland in 1993, and has been held every four years since. But after the 2013 edition held in Moscow, the Cup took an extended five-year hiatus to allow the integration of rugby sevens' Olympic debut at Rio 2016 into World Rugby's competitive calendar. Since 2018, the tournament quadrennially takes place just two years before the Olympics.
The eighth edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens was played in over three days from 9 to 11 September 2022, at the South African city of Cape Town, which makes this the first occasion that the tournament was staged in the African continent. South Africa was awarded its hosting rights in 2019, having been chosen over 10 other interested unions.
The iconic 55,000-seater Cape Town Stadium, which was built in time for South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, serves itself as the setting for the entirety of the 2022 tournament. This stadium has been the home to the South Africa Sevens since 2015, as part of the World Rugby Sevens Series.
