World Rugby U20 Trophy 2018. Romania fans are still waiting to witness a home victory in this year’s competition after Paul Altier inspired Hong Kong to only their second ever World Rugby U20 Trophy win. The fly-half racked up 36 points, including a hat-trick of tries, to secure a meeting with ...
World Rugby and ChildFund launch transformational partnership for RWC 2019
ChildFund Pass It Back partnership aims to transform the lives of disadvantaged children in Asia Fans can opt-in to donate to the programme when purchasing tickets from 19 September Partnership forms key element of Rugby World Cup 2019 Impact Beyond legacy programme Rugby World Cup 2019 in ...
Rugby sevens teams confirmed for Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games Asia Rugby
World Rugby has confirmed the six men’s and six women’s teams that will participate in the rugby sevens competitions at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 13-15 October. Rugby sevens making second appearance at Youth Olympic Games Six women’s and six men’s teams ...
Rugby sevens shines in 18th Asian Games
With the dust settled on the Asian Games, rugby sevens was a fitting finale to the 18th edition in Jakarta. With the sport now firmly cemented in the Olympic family after its debut in Rio in 2016, the sport continues to go from strength to strength. This was another demonstration of that, this ...
Eight years of hurt undone with sensational gold in Jakarta
Hong Kong struck gold on an enthralling night in Jakarta, beating Japan 14-0 in the Asian Games final on Saturday. Tries from Yiu Salom and Alessandro Nardoni secured the historic gold, ending a run of two successive defeats to Japan in the last two Asian Games finals. For some players, ...
Hong Kong U20s handed heavy loss by Namibia at World Rugby U20 Trophy
Hong Kong’s U20 rugby team lost 84-10 to Namibia at the World Rugby U20 Trophy last night in Bucharest, Romania. Accuracy issues and slow starts to both halves contributed to the loss against Namibia fourth placed finishers in the 2017 World Rugby Trophy tournament. Coach Stephen Dowse had ...
Hong Kong strike gold at the Asian Games
Hong Kong created yet more history at the 2018 Asian Games with a 14-0 win over Japan in the gold medal final in Jakarta. It was Hong Kong’s first-ever gold in the competition having finished as runners-up in 2010 and 2014, ending Japan’s run of three successive gold medals at the same ...
Historic victory for Japan women at the 2018 Asian Games
Japan women won an historic first-ever gold medal at the Asian Games with a 7-0 win over China in an enthralling final in Jakarta. Yume Hirano scored her sixth try of the Asian Games to give Japan a 7-0 lead and that was to be their only score of the match. Keyi Chen scored her 11th of the Games ...
Asian Games 2018 Rugby Sevens Live Scores and Updates
Asian Games 2018 Rugby Sevens Live Scores and Updates Day 3 1st September 2018 Asian Games 2018 Rugby Sevens Live Scores Day 3 Saturday 1st September 2018 All times are Indonesia Local time (+7GMT) Games are delayed by 2 ...
Asia Rugby statement: Asian Games
Asia Rugby wishes to apologise to all the rugby stakeholders for the very unfortunate turn of events at the Asian Games whereby there was a 3 hour suspension of play on the morning of Saturday 1st September. This resulted due to appeals being lodged to the event organisers, the Olympic Council of ...