Germany national rugby sevens team
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| Union | Deutscher Rugby-Verband |
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| Coach(es) | Chad Shepherd |
| Captain(s) | Clemens von Grumbkow |
The German national rugby sevens team represents Germany in international rugby sevens tournaments.
In 2012 the team competed in the top-level European sevens competition, the Grand Prix series, where Germany finished eleventh out of twelve teams and avoided relegation. The team also unsuccessfully took part in the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying tournament in Moscow in July 2012.
In 2015 Germany has qualified to the Final 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament, where the team aims to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The team has taken part in the Hong Kong Sevens tournament in the past, its greatest success being a win in the Bowl final in 1990, beating Thailand 28–12.
In the 1990s, the team, captained by Rainer Kumm, took part in a number of international tournaments including the Punta del Este Sevens in 1997, where they lost to Argentina in the plate final and the Paris Sevens in 1996, 1997 (when they defeated Romania in the bowl final) and 1998 (bowl finalists, losing to Japan in the final).
Kumm retired in 2000 to take up coaching and was replaced as captain by Mark Schulze, who led the team to the 2000 Sri Lanka Sevens, where they reached the cup semi-final, having won their pool and defeated Hong Kong in the quarter-final.
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