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International Rugby Players Women's Try Of The Year
The International Rugby Players Women's Try of the Year was first presented in 2021. The inaugural winner was Emilie Boulard of . In similar fashion to the International Rugby Players Men's Try of the Year, Men's Try of the Year, the try is voted on by the fans from four nominations that have been shortlisted by the IRP panel; The panel comprises Conrad Smith (NZL, Chair), Rachael Burford (ENG), Thierry Dusautoir (FRA), Fiao'o Fa'amausili (NZL), Bryan Habana (RSA) and Jamie Heaslip (IRE). Winners & Nominees References External linksWorld Rugby Awards {{World Rugby Awards World Rugby Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Rugby
World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international rugby competitions, such as the World Rugby Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the World Under 20 Championship, and the Pacific Nations Cup. World Rugby's headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Its membership now comprises 120 national unions. Each member country must also be a member of one of the six regional unions into which the world is divided: Africa, Americas North, Asia, Europe, South America, and Oceania. World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by , and , with joining in 1890. , and became full members in 1949. became a member in 1978 and a further 80 members joined from 1987 to 1999. The body was renamed the International Rugby Board (IRB) in 1998, and took up its current name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Women's Six Nations Championship
The 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship was the 20th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between England women's national rugby union team, England, France women's national rugby union team, France, Ireland women's national rugby union team, Ireland, Italy women's national rugby union team, Italy, Scotland women's national rugby union team, Scotland and Wales women's national rugby union team, Wales. The 2021 tournament was given a change of format from its traditional eight week Round-robin tournament, round-robin format to a four-week format consisting of two pools of three teams with a final, inspired by the format of the Autumn Nations Cup, which replaced the 2020 end-of-year rugby union internationals, 2020 Autumn Internationals. The tournament was held from 3 to 24 April 2021. As not all teams played each other, the Grand Slam (rugby union), Grand Slam and Triple Crown (rugby union), Triple Crown were not contested. Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Djougang
Linda Djougang (born 17 May 1996) is an Irish rugby player from Balbriggan, Co Dublin. She plays for Old Belvedere, Leinster and Ireland women's national rugby union team. She works fulltime as a nurse in Dublin. Background Djougang moved to Ireland from Douala in Cameroon at the age of 9. She grew up in Rush, Dublin where she attended Rush and Lusk Educate Together National School. She studied general nursing at Trinity College Dublin from 2015 to 2020. She worked as a part-time care assistant from 2016 to 2020. She also worked as an intern at Grant Thornton International. In 2020, she began working at Tallaght University Hospital. Djougang speaks English and French fluently. Rugby career Djougang began playing rugby at the age of 17 when a friend invited her to a game of tag rugby. It was not until she was in university at Trinity College Dublin, while on a work placement, that she first encountered rugby. She was spotted playing ‘tag rugby’ in Wanderers RFC whose tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Chancellor
Emily Chancellor (born 20 August 1991) is an Australian rugby union player. She plays in the Loose forwards for Australia and the NSW Waratahs in the Super W competition. Biography Chancellor made her international debut for the Wallaroos on 18 August 2018 against New Zealand in a Bledesloe double header at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney. She was named Wallaroos Player of Year in 2018. Chancellor was named in the Australian squad for test matches against Fiji and Japan in May 2022. She was then named in the squad for the 2022 Pacific Four Series. She started against the Black Ferns in the opening match of the Pacific Four series on 6 June. Chancellor also made the Wallaroos squad for the two-test series against the Black Ferns for the Laurie O'Reilly Cup. She was selected in the team again for the delayed 2022 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Brunt
Logo-I-Pulotu Lemapu Atai-i "Sylvia" Brunt (born 1 January 2004) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She was part of the Black Ferns squad that won the 2021 Rugby World Cup. She also plays for the Blues Women in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition. Rugby career Brunt attended Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland. She plays for Ponsonby and for the Auckland Storm in the Farah Palmer Cup. 2021–22 Brunt played for the Blues in the historic clash with the Chiefs in 2021. She was named in the Blues team for the inaugural season of Super Rugby Aupiki. Brunt was called in as a travelling reserve for the Black Ferns for the 2022 Pacific Four Series. She made her international debut on 12 June 2022 against Canada in West Auckland. She was recalled into the team for the August Laurie O'Reilly Cup test series against Australia. Brunt was selected for the Black Ferns 2021 Rugby World Cup 32-player squad. She scored a brace of tries in the second pool game against Wales at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Rugby World Cup
The 2021 Rugby World Cup was the ninth staging of the women's Rugby World Cup, as organised by World Rugby. It was held from 8 October to 12 November 2022 in Auckland and Whangārei, New Zealand. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the first women's Rugby World Cup to be hosted by New Zealand, and by a country in the Southern Hemisphere. New Zealand were also the defending champions. The tournament introduced changes such as replacement of classification play-offs in the knockout stage with quarter-finals, and a longer scheduling window with at least five days between matches. It was also the first to not be marketed by World Rugby as the "Women's Rugby World Cup", due to a decision to market both the men's and women's tournaments under the "Rugby World Cup" title with no disambiguation beginning in 2021. Host selection On 14 November 2018, World Rugby announced that New Zealand would host the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Barattin
Sara Barattin (born 11 September 1986 in Treviso) is an Italian rugby union player who plays as scrum-half for ASD Villorba Rugby and the Italy women's national rugby union team, where she was the captain from 2016 to 2018. During the 2019 Six Nations championship Barattin became Italy's most capped player (89) overtaking Michela Tondinelli, retired at 87. Sporting career Barattin was born on 11 September 1986. Barattin began playing for the Italy women's national rugby union team at the age of 18. Prior to the start of the 2016 season, she was made the team's captain. Barattin was captain of Italy as they competed in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, the first World Cup for the national side since 2002. She continued to be selected for the following year's Women's Six Nations Championship as the team's captain, by which time she was the most experienced player selected with 77 caps at the start of the tournament. In 2022, Barattin was selected in Italy's squad for the 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Dow
Abigail Dow (born 29 September 1997, Slough) is an English rugby player. She is a member of the England women's national rugby team and a winger for Ealing Trailfinders Women at club level. In November 2023 she was nominated for the World Rugby Women's 15s Player of the Year. International career Dow made her England debut in the 2017 Old Mutual Wealth Series against Canada women's national rugby union team, where she scored five tries in her first two appearances. During the 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship, she started three of England's matches and scored three tries. England finished in second place. She featured once during the 2019 Women's Six Nations Championship, scoring a try as England defeated Wales. England went on to win the grand slam. She played again for England in the 2020 Women's Six Nations Championship, scoring four tries in three matches and becoming a Grand Slam winner for the second time. In 2020, she was awarded a professional contract with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romane Ménager
Romane Ménager (born 26 July 1996) is a French rugby union player who plays for the France women's national rugby union team and Montpellier Hérault Rugby. Career She started playing rugby aged 7 for LMRC Villeneuve d'Ascq. Along with her twin sister Marine Ménager she made her debut in the league aged 18 for Lille MRCV. In 2016 Marine joined Romane in playing for the French national team. Romane had made her France debut the previous year. Romane was selected in the French squad for the 2017 Rugby World Cup. On 23 May 2018 both sisters joined Montpelier having played for 14 years with Lille MRC Villeneuvois and won the Élite 1 championship in 2016. Both sisters named in France's fifteens team for the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Heaslip
James Peter Richard Heaslip (born 15 December 1983) is an Irish rugby union former player who played for Leinster and Ireland. He played as a number 8. Heaslip earned 95 caps for Ireland during his international career from 2006 to 2017, making him one of the most capped players in Irish national team history. Early life Heaslip was born in Tiberias, Israel, while his father, retired Brigadier General Richard Heaslip, was there on duty with UNIFIL. His father was one of the founding officers of the elite Army Ranger Wing (ARW), Ireland's special operations force. The youngest of four children, he has two brothers and a sister. Jamie and his family moved back to Ireland when he was still young, settling in the town of Naas where he lived until moving to Dublin aged 17. He attended Newbridge College, in County Kildare. In 2004, he starred in the U-21 World Cup, held in Scotland, where Ireland finished as runners-up to New Zealand. Following his performance, Heaslip was nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Dow
Abigail Dow (born 29 September 1997, Slough) is an English rugby player. She is a member of the England women's national rugby team and a winger for Ealing Trailfinders Women at club level. In November 2023 she was nominated for the World Rugby Women's 15s Player of the Year. International career Dow made her England debut in the 2017 Old Mutual Wealth Series against Canada women's national rugby union team, where she scored five tries in her first two appearances. During the 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship, she started three of England's matches and scored three tries. England finished in second place. She featured once during the 2019 Women's Six Nations Championship, scoring a try as England defeated Wales. England went on to win the grand slam. She played again for England in the 2020 Women's Six Nations Championship, scoring four tries in three matches and becoming a Grand Slam winner for the second time. In 2020, she was awarded a professional contract with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Habana
Bryan Gary Habana OIS (born 12 June 1983) is a South African former professional rugby union player who initially played as an outside centre but later on, he shifted to the wing. He most recently played for Toulon in the French Top 14 competition, and for the South Africa national team (the Springboks). Habana was part of the South Africa team that won the 2007 Rugby World Cup and was one of the stars of the tournament, his eight tries equalling the single-tournament record set by Jonah Lomu in 1999. He was subsequently named the 2007 IRB Player of the Year. During the 2015 Rugby World Cup Habana equalled Lomu's career record of 15 tries in World Cups. He is in second place among all time test try scorers, with a total of 67 tries. Career Early career Habana was born in Johannesburg and named Bryan Gary Habana, after former Manchester United footballers Bryan Robson and Gary Bailey. Habana was educated at King Edward VII School and Rand Afrikaans University (now kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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