Rugby Union Tri Nations

The Tri Nations tournament involves Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The three rugby giants of the southern hemisphere battle it out for the crown each year, playing each other home and awa

Rugby Union Tri Nations History

The Tri Nations was launched in 1996 as a direct consequence of rugby union turning professional after the 1995 World Cup.

Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, spotting the commercial op

Rugby Union Tri Nations Recent Winners

Listing recent Tri Nations winners is a straightforward job - New Zealand.

The All Blacks have not only won nine of the 13 Tri Nations tournaments, but have also won the last four. Not that

Rugby Union Six Nations

The Six Nations Championship, contested annually, is rugby union's oldest international championship and effectively decides the champions of Europe.

It began life more than 120 years ago as

Rugby Union Six Nations Recent Winners

No one side can claim to have dominated the last 10 years of the Six Nations. Indeed, the trophy has been shared about with alarming regularity. There have been six Grand Slams since 2000, with fou

Rugby Union World Cup 2007

The biggest surprise of the 2007 final was not that South Africa won but that England managed to make the final at all.

The team, in total disarray since 2003, had been mauled 36-0 by the Sp

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS - OVERVIEW

International rugby union continues to be dominated by the southern hemisphere, with New Zealand the pace-setters despite their puzzling inability to lift the greatest prize of them all - the World

Rugby Union World Cup

Rugby Union's World Cup was launched just over 20 years ago but it is already one of the world's leading sports tournaments, following in the wake of soccer's World Cup and the Olympics.

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international world cup history

The idea of a rugby World Cup was first mooted in the late 1950s - almost 30 years after the first soccer world tournament - but was repeatedly rejected by a majority of national unions.

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Rugby Union World Cup 1987

Not for the last time, France made sure that the final of the inaugural tournament failed to produce a fitting climax.

The mercurial French had produced one of the great cup performances to

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