[World Rugby FAIR course, Singapore] Ms. Merianne Selvaraj (World Rugby Medical Trainer) shares her thoughts on her first Face to Face World Rugby Medical Course (World Rugby FAIR course) since the inception of the COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing protocols (July 2020) In these ...
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George Danapal Joins Asia Rugby as the Match Officials In-Charge
Asia Rugby is delighted to announce that Mr. George Danapal has joined the Regional Association as the Match Officials Development Consultant. George, will be working closely with Asia Rugby Consultants, Asia Rugby member unions, and taking direction from the Asia Rugby Referees and Judiciary ...
The Bradby Shield – Sri Lanka schools’ coveted Rugby encounter
The Rolls-Royce of schools’ Rugby encounters in the Island, having begun in 1920, the game was transformed into a two-legged, shield encounter in 1945 (76 Years) after Royal College Principal E.L Bradby put forward the idea. The first historic match was played on the 31st of July, 1920 (100 years ...
Mais Khoury, Yielding the way for Female Rugby Coaches in Jordan
In the last couple of years, Jordan Rugby has been part of various accomplishments, and one of these major achievements was the beginning of the Jordanian Women’s National Rugby team, which was founded in 2019. Ever since then, Jordanian female Rugby players have been greatly involved in the ...
Ghaith Jalajel takes over the role of Asia Rugby Competitions Consultant.
Asia Rugby is delighted to announce that Ghaith Jalajel who is currently the Development Consultant for West Asia, will be taking on an additional role as Asia Rugby Competitions Consultant. Ghaith has been involved in Rugby in Asia since 2004 and is a World Rugby Master Trainer. He has extensive ...
Asia Rugby Live “Giving back to the game”
We are back this Sunday 12th July at 11 Am UAE (+4 GMT) with the 12th Episode of Asia Rugby Live with 4 more amazing guests. The topic of episode 12 we talk about “Giving back to the game”, as our 4 coaches involved with coaching Asian team’s share their stories of how they ended up coaching ...
Cambodia, Iraq and Palestine join the Asia Rugby Family and Afghanistan becomes a full member of Asia Rugby
Asia Rugby announced that Cambodia Federation of Rugby, Iraq Rugby Committee and Palestine Rugby Committee have been granted Asia Rugby Associate membership bringing the number of national unions in membership to 34. Afghanistan Rugby Federation has also been granted full membership. All ...
Kazakhstan women aiming for Rugby World Cup return
Kazakhstan women have come out of the international wilderness and are now hoping to make it to their seventh Rugby World Cup. In July/August last year, the Kazakhs beat China 23-13 on aggregate in a two-legged Asia Rugby Division 1 play-off, despite lacking competitive game time over the last ...
New Zealand awarded titles as HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 concluded
Following a comprehensive consultation process the remaining rounds of the women’s and men’s HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 in Langford, London, Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong have been cancelled due to the ongoing and dynamic global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the 2020 Series to ...
How rugby sevens became an Olympic sport #OlympicDay
Humphrey Kayange was preparing for the penultimate event of the 2008-09 World Rugby Sevens Series at Twickenham when he received a momentous request. An email had pinged into his account inviting the Kenyan to remain in London after the tournament to join the team that would make rugby’s case for ...