Americas Rankings – August 20 2017

This weekend there was one capped get match involving teams from the Americas. That fixture was the Rugby Championship opening round match in Port Elizabeth. Argentine fell to a heavy defeat against South Africa, losing 37-15. The updated Americas Rankings for August 20 2017 see Argentina losing points.

The Springboks’ home win sees Argentina falling from 9th to 10th in the World Rankings. This means that Fiji, a team outside of the Rugby Championship, is now above Los Pumas. Argentina’s ranking has fallen from 79.50 to 79.2o. Fiji has 79.48 points.

In the Americas Rankings Argentina remains in top spot. The updated rankings see the fall slightly reducing the gap between Argentina and the USA. Uruguay, Canada and Chile complete the top five in the Americas Rankings.

Additional changes are possible best weekend. Argentina will have home advantage against South Africa in Salta. A win of any kind will be sufficient o move back above Fiji. Furthermore France would also slip behind Argentina. As such the South Americans could move into 8th spot.

RANK		COUNTRY	POINTS	WRR
1		Argentina	79.15	9
2		USA	65.84	17
3		Uruguay	63.15	18
4		Canada	59.47	23
5		Chile	54.76	28
6		Brazil	54.50	29
7		Paraguay	48.54	39
8		Colombia	47.97	44
9		Guyana	46.55	49
10		Trinidad & Tobago	45.51	53
11		Cayman Islands	45.20	54
12		Mexico	45.12	55
13		Venezuela	41.14	62
14		Jamaica	38.76	69
15		Bermuda	37.39	76
16		Peru	36.82	79
17		Barbados	36.48	83
18		Bahamas	34.03	88
19		Turks & Caicos Islands	33.53	–
20		St. Vincent and the Grenadines	33.12	84
21		St. Lucia	31.79	–
22		Guatemala	31.68	–
23		Costa Rica	30.70	–
24		Ecuador	30.57	–
25		Panama	30.29	–
26		Belize	30.00	–
=		Bolivia	30.00	–
=		British Virgin Islands	30.00	–
=		Cuba	30.00	–
=		Guadeloupe	30.00	–
=		Haiti	30.00	–
=		Honduras	30.00	–
=		Martinique	30.00	–
=		Nicaragua	30.00	–
=		St. Kitts and Nevis	30.00	–
=		Suriname	30.00	–
37		Dominican Republic	29.12	–
38		Curaçao	27.08	–
39		El Salvador	26.63	–