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The World Rugby Under 20 Championship (known as the IRB Junior World Championship until 2014) is an international rugby union competition. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, World Rugby, and is contested by 12 men's junior national teams with an under-20 age requirement. This event replaced the IRB's former age-grade world ...
The 2023 under 20 competition (alongside the Trophy) was the first global U20 competition held since 2019, with the 2020 edition, scheduled to be held in Italy, cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing instability in the world following the pandemic delaying the return of the competition. There were however various regional U20 ...
The World Rugby Under 20 Trophy is the second level of the World Rugby tournament structure for under-20 national sides. At the same time that the Trophy was launched, World Rugby (then known as the International Rugby Board) also launched an upper-level championship , featuring 16 teams in 2008 and 2009 and a reduced format for 12 teams from ...
Champions (3): 2018, 2019 and 2023. The France national under-20 rugby union team ( French: Équipe de France de rugby à XV des moins de 20 ans ), also known as France under-20s or France U20 (s), is the national under-20 rugby union team of France, under the control of the French Rugby Federation. Competing in the annual Six Nations Under 20s ...
Two finals have gone to extra time: South Africa's victory against New Zealand in the 1995 final, and England 's triumph against Australia in the 2003 final. [ 3] Only five nations have ever made it into a Rugby World Cup final. South Africa is the most successful team in the history of the tournament, with four wins, followed by New Zealand ...
The Men's Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams, the winners of which are recognised as the World champions of the sport. The tournament is administered by World Rugby , the sport's international governing body.
The women's Rugby World Cup is the women's rugby union world championship which is organised by World Rugby.The first Rugby World Cup for women was held in 1991, but it was not until the 1998 tournament that the tournament received official backing from the International Rugby Board (IRB, now World Rugby); by 2009, the IRB had retroactively recognized the 1991 and 1994 tournaments and their ...
RG Snyman. Rudolph Gerhardus Snyman (born 29 January 1995) is a South African rugby union player who plays as a lock for United Rugby Championship club Munster and the South Africa national team. Snyman was part of the South Africa team that won the Rugby World Cup in 2019 and 2023, [ 1] and is widely known as 'The Viking' among fans and ...