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Nov 3, 18 •
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All Blacks Beauden Barrett and Rieko Ioane, and Black Ferns skipper Fiao’o Faamausili have been named as finalists for the Men’s and Women’s 15s Player of the Year awards, taking the tally of New Zealand nominations to seven, for this year’s World...
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Nov 2, 18 •
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Two Springboks, Malcolm Marx and Faf de Klerk, are amongst a group of five players nominated for the prestigious 2018 World Rugby Player of the Year Award. Marx (hooker) and De Klerk (scrumhalf) join their Springbok colleague Aphiwe Dyantyi as South African...
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Oct 27, 18 •
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All Blacks prop Karl Tu’inukuafe will officially graduate from the international newcomers’ class of 2018 as one of the world’s best. The 2018 All Black prop, who shot to fame after a shock call-up as injury cover for the All Blacks during the June...
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Oct 26, 18 •
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Springbok wing Aphiwe Dyantyi has been nominated as one of three candidates for World Rugby’s Breakthrough Player of the Year Award for 2018. There are three countries represented in the nominees for the 2018 award, in association with Tudor. The other...
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Oct 25, 18 •
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SA Rugby announced on Thursday that it was renewing its partnership with top sports performance brand, ASICS, for a further five years. The new agreement – which will make the relationship a decade-long one at the end of 2024 – will incorporate landmark...
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Sep 19, 18 •
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Rugby’s leading decision-makers will meet in Sydney next week when Rugby Australia hosts key World Rugby committee meetings. Within a week of scheduled meetings, World Rugby’s Executive, Rugby, Regional, Audit and Risk and Regulations Committees and Rugby...
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Aug 18, 18 •
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The highly-popular HSBC Cape Town Sevens tournament was named best the Best Live Experience of 2018 for the second time in as many years at the 2018 Sports Industry Awards in Johannesburg on Friday evening. The tournament sold out in hours in 2017 and more...
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Aug 11, 18 •
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World Rugby has announced that Sir Bryan Williams is one of five legends of the game to be inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame for 2018. The World Rugby Hall of Fame recognises those who have made an outstanding contribution to the game of rugby...
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Aug 11, 18 •
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Auckland and Whangarei confirmed as host cities if bid successful New Zealand Government supports New Zealand Rugby in bid Possibility of Pacific Island women’s rugby tournament WRWC could be held in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time New Zealand...
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Aug 11, 18 •
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Rugby Australia has today offered its congratulations to current Qantas Wallabies’ Assistant Coach Stephen Larkham on being inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame on Friday. Larkham was one of five former players inducted into World Rugby’s Hall of...
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Aug 9, 18 •
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South Africa’s Ashleigh Murray, one of the country’s leading women’s referees, has been named amongst the 25 match officials from 15 unions for the 2019 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series. World Rugby named the appointments for the forthcoming season on...
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Jul 31, 18 •
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England’s most capped player Rochelle Clark has called time on her international career, 15 years after earning her first cap. The 37-year-old made 137 international appearances, surpassing Jason Leonard’s previous record of 114 in November 2016, before...
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Jul 23, 18 •
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Rugby Australia welcomes the NSW Government’s plan to bid for 10 World Cups in the next 10 years, as the bidding process for the 2021 Women’s Rugby World Cup nears its conclusion and the organisation starts preparing its bid for the 2027 Rugby World Cup...
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Jul 5, 18 •
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“The delegation of Zimbabwe started complaining as soon as they arrived” TUNIS, Tunisia, July 4, 2018/ — As part of our efforts to grow rugby awareness everywhere in our country and following the decentralization policy of sports events by the...
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Jun 27, 18 •
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Two of the most experienced Blitzboks, Kyle Brown and Branco du Preez, will be at the Springbok Experience in the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town on Thursday night as the popular rugby attraction joins the festivities of Museum Night. Apart from meeting and...
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Jun 12, 18 •
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Questions and answers from Craig Joubert Powerade launched its first leg of Performance Academies taking place across major cities in the country. The Academy, hosted at the Kingsmead Cricket Ground, saw several performance experts running an...
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May 30, 18 •
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First comprehensive Encyclopaedia of Black Rugby in development Public appeal for pictures and stories for inclusion Project to be opened at the Springbok Experience on Heritage Day SA Rugby is compiling the definitive Encyclopaedia of Black Rugby,...
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May 28, 18 •
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Former Queensland and Wallabies captain John Eales will be immortalised in bronze as the next statue at Suncorp Stadium. The striking statue will capture second rower Eales being lifted by another player as he catches a lineout ball. The design will allow...
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May 26, 18 •
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The world’s largest travel website, TripAdvisor, has awarded the Springbok Experience, SA Rugby’s world-class interactive museum in Cape Town, with a Certificate of Excellence for the fourth consecutive year. This accolade is awarded to tourist...
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Mar 28, 18 •
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The Ghana Rugby (http://GhanaRugby.org) Board welcomed Mr. Joseph Bentil Anie, better known as Chester, to the fold of the Board after he was appointed in terms of the new Constitution that was adopted in 2017. Mr. Anie underwent schooling at the Ghana...
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Mar 28, 18 •
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The competition was renamed in 2016 in honour of the late Mr. Jean-Luc Barthés who worked tirelessly for fourteen years as Rugby Service Manager for Africa at World Rugby (www.WorldRugby.org) to encourage the development of African rugby. We all know that...
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Mar 14, 18 •
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Rugby Australia Chief Executive Raelene Castle has today reaffirmed Rugby Australia’s support for the NSW Government’s Sydney stadiums redevelopment plan. Rugby Australia announced its intentions last December to bid for the hosting rights for the next...
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Mar 1, 18 •
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Rassie Erasmus will spearhead a streamlined but experienced Springbok management team until the end of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, SA Rugby confirmed on Wednesday, as the former Springbok captain will combine his Springbok coaching duties with his current role...
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Feb 6, 18 •
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Former All Black Pita Alatini and Black Ferns star Charlene Gubb will front the launch of a new rugby programme in Tonga today aimed at improving the health of young people in the Pacific Islands. The four-year Sports for Health Rugby programme, funded by...
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Feb 2, 18 •
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SA Rugby announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Allister Coetzee to part ways with immediate effect. The Rugby Department of SA Rugby will manage the responsibilities of the Springbok coach, until the national team’s coaching and...
