A squad of 35 of Hong Kong’s elite rugby players will embark on what is hoped will be a historic tour to Europe on Tuesday evening for the Rugby World Cup 2019 repechage in Marseille, France (11-23 November). The winner of the round-robin competition with Germany, Kenya and Canada will advance as ...
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Indian Women’s team Arrives In Brunei for the Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy 2018
The Indian Women’s Rugby team will compete in the Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy to be held in Brunei on the 20th & 21st October 2018. A total of ten countries from across Asia including Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Guam, Philippines, Pakistan, Nepal, Uzbekistan, India and hosts Brunei will vie for ...
Asia Rugby Women’s Sevens Trophy will be streamed live #ARWST
Asia Rugby Women’s Sevens Trophy will be streamed live on Asia Rugby’s Facebook page. After the conclusion of a very exciting Asia Women’s Sevens series in Sri Lanka, the action moves to Brunei where 10 teams will compete in the “Asia Rugby Women’s Sevens Trophy” which will take place from the ...
Pakistan Rugby Union announces Team For Asia Rugby Women’s Trophy
Pakistan Women’s Rugby 7s team is ready to compete in the Asia Rugby women’s Trophy this year. The national squad's preparation was boosted by expert coaching assistance from Susan Dawson, a former Black Fern and currently Development Coach for Northland Rugby Union's premier women's team – New ...
World Cup ticket sales helping girls be girls in Laos and Vietnam
In countries where it is common for girls to walk eight kilometres to school or work before facing the prospect of early marriage, there is no notion of sport as a cultural norm. For many girls and boys in Laos, a mountainous, landlocked country in south-east Asia, the norms of childhood as ...
Women’s series finale off to entertaining start in Colombo
Japan won both of their matches on day one of the Asia Rugby Women’s Sevens Series in Sri Lanka as they continued their good form in impressive fashion. In the third and final round of the series Japan will be aiming to win a third Cup title on day two and were the only side to maintain a 100% ...
Rugby sevens set to light up Buenos Aires 2018
One hundred and forty-four young men and women, representing 11 countries from World Rugby’s six regional associations, are in Buenos Aires for the third Youth Olympic Games where the rugby sevens competition kicks off on Saturday at the Club Atletico San Isidro sede la Boya. Six men’s and ...
Huge month of international fixtures as teams accelerate #RWC2019 preparations
Final Rugby World Cup 2019 spot to be decided at repechage tournament in Marseille as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong and Kenya battle for qualification All 19 qualified unions in action during November window as preparations gather pace with less than a year to go World Rugby funding an exciting ...
Match schedule for Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games
World Rugby has confirmed the rugby sevens match schedule for the hotly-anticipated Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, Rugby sevens to be played over three days in six sessions Each participating team to play six games during the tournament Medal games to be played on 15 ...
Conference lays foundations for continued growth in Hong Kong
As Samantha Feausi told a conference last weekend, there was little chance she could have predicted the growth of women’s rugby in Hong Kong, or the role she would play in it, when she first picked up a ball 20 years ago. When a 14-year-old Feausi first attended a training session at Valley RFC ...