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The Kenya 7s team have been given top seed ranking for the final round of the men's Rugby Sevens African 2016 Olympic Games qualifiers which will be played in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the weekend of November 14/15.
A total of 12 teams will take part in the qualifiers with the winner booking Africa's sole berth to the 2016 Olympic games which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Teams that will finish in positions 2, 3 and 4 will still get a chance to feature at the games as they will participate in a 16-team repechage tournament which will see the winner booking a to the event.
The repechage tournament will feature two teams from South America (Uruguay and Chile), four teams from Europe (Spain, Russia, Germany and Ireland), two teams from North America (Mexico and Canada), three teams from Asia (To Be Confirmed), and two teams from Oceania.
The repechage tournament dates will be determined once each continent has concluded its qualifying tournaments. The teams taking part in the African qualifiers are Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Namibia, Uganda, Madagascar,Senegal, Zambia, Morocco, Mauritius, Nigeria and Botswana.
Already 8 teams have qualified with for Olympic games with only four remaining to be filled.
The qualified teams are hosts Brazil, teams that finished in the first four positions during the 2014-15 IRB Rugby Sevens tournament (Fiji, South African, New Zealand and Great Britain), South American Champions (Argentina), European Champions (France) and North American Champions (USA).
The slots waiting to be filled are of those Africa, Asia, Oceania and winner of the repechage tournament.
- Additional information by Kenyarfu.com