In a wonderful evening for women’s sport, Claudia Fragapane won Young Sports Personality of the Year. The 17-year-old gymnast is the first British woman in 84 years to win four gold medals at one Commonwealth Games. Jill Stidever won the Sport’s Unsung Hero award: after spending nearly 60 years teaching thousands of children with special needs to swim.
Its been quite a time for our Rugby team, they were awarded Freedom of the City by Rugby Borough Council earlier in the week and the honours keep on coming both for the team as a whole and individual members. Yesterday in Darlington stars of the region’s sporting community descended on the Dolphin Centre for the 15th
World Rugby President Bernard Lapasset welcomes the approval by the IOC membership at the 127th IOC Session in Monaco of the 40 recommendations that comprise Olympic Agenda 2020, a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. Lapasset said: “This is a significant moment for the Olympic Movement and World Rugby is delighted to
Major changes are afoot within the management of Women’s and 7’s rugby in the IRFU. Sport for Business has reported that they have seen an email sent last night from Head of Performance David Nucifora which confirms that Jon Skurr has left his position as manager of the Women’s 7’s team with immediate effect. The
Rugby Borough Councillors have awarded World Cup winners England Women the Freedom of the Borough, in recognition of their outstanding achievement in winning the 2014 Rugby World Cup in France. A special ceremony to honour the team was held at Rugby Town Hall, followed by a civic reception. Freedom of the Borough of Rugby is the
There were some inspirational stories among the winners of the first ever Pride of Sport Awards held at the Grosvenor House on Wednesday. More than 300 VIP guests in attendance including: rugby’s Chris Robshaw, football’s Sam Allerdyce, athletics’ Greg Rutherford and swimming’s Mark Foster and Rebecca Addlington. They were there to honour heroes of sport,
New Zealand claimed the first round of the World Rugby Women’s Seven Series after beating Australia in a classic final match in Dubai. A last minute winner from inspirational captain Sarah Goss saw the Kiwis clinch the win from their rivals, who had impressed throughout the two-day tournament. In front of a packed house in
Francois Hougaard’s spectacular score in South Africa’s win over New Zealand in the Rugby Championship has been named as the International Rugby Players’ Association (IRPA) Try of the Year 2014. The Springbok scrum-half, who scored the first try of the match in Johannesburg in early October, becomes the third South African to win the award
In a thrilling match Fiji opened the scoring before England equalised, then England went ahead and Fiji came back at them and with the scores equal at full time it was onto extra time. Both teams were exhausted and Fiji resorted to kicking the ball clear. In the end it was Natasha Hunt who saved the
In a thrilling contest England beat Russia by 21 – 19 to reach the Plate Final. Earlier Russia had pushed World Champions New Zealand and proved tough opposition for a slightly downcast England. Marina Petrova put Russia ahead but Natasha Hunt and Alice Richardson hit back to put the half time score at 14 –
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