World Rugby Awards to take place in an innovate virtual format on Monday, 7 December, 2020 Special edition will recognise rugby’s front liners who showed great solidarity during the pandemic and honour the best from the last decade of rugby (2010-19) Rugby fans around the world to get involved and decide winners in six new
SBC World Rugby Sevens Series Award winners to be announced on 21 September Twenty-four winners to be announced across six men’s and women’s award categories Nine unions nominated across the men’s and women’s UL Mark of Excellence Award and Cigna Pressure Play Awards Fan voting opens for Cigna Pressure Play and UL Mark of Excellence
Transformational Rugby World Cup 2021 Coaching Internship Programme opens for all RWC 2021 participating unions Programme will create quality deployment opportunities for aspiring elite female coaches in high-performance environments Selected participants to be fully embedded for 12 months in RWC 2021 national squad management teams Programme aims to address the lack of female coaches at
Funding boost of US$2.5 million to optimise teams’ Olympic preparations for Tokyo GamesHSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2021 contingency plans progressing towards a return to action in Hong Kong and Singapore in April 2021 Events in Hamilton and Sydney will not take place in 2021 Series, returning in 2022 Supplementary competition opportunities being developed at
It’s excellent news that Safi N’Diaye is one of the two current players to form part of the working group established by World Rugby to look into its governance. She is a familiar figure to British rugby fans, having represented France over 70 times in an 9-year career at the top level. In France she
Sir Bill Beaumont has been re-elected Chairman of World Rugby, to serve for four more years. He faced stiff opposition from Agustin Pichot, as heroic a figure in Argentinian rugby as Beaumont in English. The voting was 28 to 23. Bernard Laporte, head of French Rugby, was elected unopposed as vice-chair. Their combined strategy includes
Sixth meeting of the Rugby Athletes’ Commission takes place in Cape Town Athlete representatives discuss key issues facing players Actions agreed for 2020 building on new and existing projects Ensuring the voice of the players continues to be at the heart of rugby’s global decision-making processes as rugby accelerates into a decade of growth and
Today marks the dawn of a new era for rugby sevens as the captains competing in the first of a record six combined men’s and women’s events on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series came together in Dubai to officially launch the tournament. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Dubai Sevens takes place on
Sean Horan, New Zealand women’s silver medal-winning coach at Rio 2016, is set to lead another side at an Olympic Games after his new charges China used their recent HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series experience to overpower a largely youthful Hong Kong team and win the Asia Rugby qualification tournament on home soil in Guangzhou,
Eight women’s teams will compete at the Asia Women’s Sevens in Guangzhou, China on 9-10 November for Asia’s second place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The winners of the two-day tournament, hosted at the Guangzhou University Town Sports Centre, will earn automatic qualification to next year’s summer Games with the teams finishing in second
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