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Clark Laidlaw
Clark Laidlaw (born 16 July 1977) is currently the head coach of the New Zealand national rugby sevens team. Laidlaw was appointed as New Zealand national rugby sevens team, All Blacks Sevens Head Coach in 2017. Biography Laidlaw is the son of former British & Irish Lions and Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland international rugby union player Roy Laidlaw. His cousin, Greig Laidlaw, also represented the British & Irish Lions and Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland. He represented Scotland internationally in Rugby sevens, sevens and moved to New Zealand in 2008. Coaching Career Laidlaw became the Skills Coach for Taranaki Rugby Football Union, Taranaki in 2010 then became the Skills Coach and Video Analyst with the New Zealand national rugby sevens team, New Zealand sevens team under Gordon Tietjens, Sir Gordon Tietjens from 2010 to 2012. He made the move back to the 15-aside game, as the Assistant Coach of the Hurricanes (rugby union), Hurricanes from 2013 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand National Rugby Sevens Team
The New Zealand national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. They have won a record twelve World Rugby Sevens Series titles. The team has been officially known as the All Blacks Sevens since 1 June 2012. The team played for the first time at the 1973 International Seven-A-Side Tournament. In 1983 it first entered the Hong Kong Sevens, where it has been champion 10 times and runner-up another 10 times. The All Blacks Sevens are the current Rugby World Cup Sevens. History World Sevens Series The team has won thirteen of the 21 World Rugby Sevens World Series events. Since 2000 when the series first started, the only times they have not won the series were in 2006 when Fiji were crowned champions, 2009, 2017 and 2018 won by South Africa. 2010 when they came second to Samoa and 2015, 2016 when Fiji won the series back to back and then in 2019 when Fiji won their 4th series title. Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
