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2002 Tri Nations Series
The 2002 Tri Nations Series was contested from 13 July to 17 August between the Australia, New Zealand and South Africa national rugby union teams. The All Blacks won the tournament. South Africa won their first Mandela Challenge Plate in a one-off home test against Australia. Australia made it 5 wins in a row in the Bledisloe Cup The Bledisloe Cup is an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia's Wallabies and New Zealand's All Blacks that has been contested since the 1930s. The frequency that the competition is held has varied, as has the n ..., having taken it from New Zealand in 1998. As of 2022, this was the last time that Australia won the Bledisloe Cup. Table Results Round 1 ---- Round 2 ---- Round 3 ---- Round 4 ---- Round 5 Referee McHugh had to be replaced in the 43rd minute after a drunk South African fan, Pieter van Zyl, ran onto the pitch and tackled him, leaving McHugh with a dislocated shoulder and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Tri Nations Series
The 2001 Tri Nations Series was contested from 21 July to 1 September between the Australia, New Zealand and South Africa national rugby union teams. The Wallabies won another thrilling game at Stadium Australia in Sydney with number eight Toutai Kefu scoring a try at the death in captain John Eales John Anthony Eales (born 27 June 1970) is an Australian former rugby union player and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby. In 1999, he became one of the first players to win multiple Rugby World Cups. Early life E ...' final test match, to successfully defend the Tri Nations trophy. Australia made it four wins in a row in the Bledisloe Cup, having taken it from New Zealand in 1998. Table Results Round 1 ---- Round 2 ---- Round 3 ---- Round 4 ---- Round 5 ---- Round 6 ---- References External linksTri Nationsat Rugby.com.au {{The Rugby Championship Tri Nations The Rugby Championship Tri Tri Tri Nations [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Howlett
Douglas Charles Howlett (born 21 September 1978) is a retired New Zealand professional rugby union player. He was primarily a wing, but he also sometimes played as a fullback. He played for Auckland, and the Highlanders, Hurricanes and Blues in Super Rugby. He finished his career with Munster in Ireland. With 49 tries in 62 tests, Howlett is currently the seventh-highest try scorer in rugby union history and the top try scorer for New Zealand. Early life Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Howlett attended May Road School and Mt Roskill Intermediate School. He started playing rugby at Auckland Grammar School, where he was also a star sprinter, captain of athletics and, during his final year in 1996, Head Prefect. He calls upon his speed as a sprinter (he once clocked a personal best 10.94 seconds for the 100 metres in an under 20 athletics championship in 1998) to great effect in his rugby career. Playing career Howlett made his first-class debut at the age of 18 for Auckland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Hewett
David Norman Hewett (born 14 July 1971) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. During his playing career, he played as a prop for Canterbury, the Crusaders, the Scarlets and Edinburgh. Rugby union career Player He played for the Crusaders in Super Rugby and for Canterbury in the Air New Zealand Cup. He made his debut for the All Blacks at the age of 30 in November 2001 against Ireland and won 22 full caps for the national team scoring two tries. Hewett signed a short-term deal with the Welsh regional team the Llanelli Scarlets in November 2004, playing three times before returning to New Zealand at the end of January. He was expected to return to the Scarlets for the 2005–06 season, having agreed a two-year contract, but he ended up signing a similar deal with Edinburgh in March 2005. He played for the Scottish team until 2007, his last year as professional. Coach From 2007 to 2016, Hewett worked in coaching roles for the Canterbury Crusaders. He has also co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Hammett
Mark Garry 'Hammer' Hammett (born 13 July 1972) is a New Zealand rugby union coach (sport), coach and former player. Having represented Canterbury Rugby Football Union, Canterbury provincially 76 times, and the Crusaders (rugby union), Crusaders 81 times and the All Blacks 30 times – including 29 Test match (rugby union), Test matches, Hammett later went on to coach both Canterbury and Crusaders as a forwards/assistant coach. He is currently on the assistant coach of the in Super Rugby and the Tasman Rugby Union, Tasman Makos in the Mitre 10 Cup. Playing career Early career: 1989–97 Hammett first represented New Zealand, while he was a pupil at St Thomas of Canterbury College, when selected for the New Zealand Under 17 team in 1989. He then captained the Under 19 team in 1991, before making his first appearance for Canterbury in 1992. Although his one game for Canterbury in 1992 was as a replacement, he played seven games the following season. As hooker, he played mainly as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Somerville
Greg Mardon Somerville is a New Zealand rugby union player. He is a former All Black and a specialised tighthead prop who can also play loosehead. Somerville made his All Black debut in 2000 against Tonga, a match in which the All Blacks won 102–0. Somerville went 41 test matches before scoring his first, and only test try against Fiji in 2005. Somerville played domestic rugby for Canterbury Rugby Football Union and for the Crusaders (rugby), Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition, having played 100 matches for the latter after debuting against the Chiefs (Super Rugby), Chiefs in 1999. Somerville's nickname is Yoda, after the fictional character from Star Wars due to their resemblance. Somerville left New Zealand in late 2008, having signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Guinness Premiership team Gloucester Rugby, Gloucester. In 2010 he left Gloucester for the Melbourne Rebels, with whom he spent the 2011 season before retiring. Somerville's sporting hero is Buck Shelfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Jack
Christopher Raymond Jack (born 5 September 1978) is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played as a lock. He played for Canterbury and the Tasman Mako in the National Provincial Championship and its successor, the Air New Zealand Cup; the Crusaders in Super Rugby; Saracens in the Guinness Premiership; and internationally for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. Rugby career His test debut for the All Blacks was against Argentina on 23 June 2001 in Christchurch. With his size and athleticism, he established himself as a regular in the All Blacks side. It was announced on 7 June 2006 that Jack had signed a two-year contract with the newly formed Tasman Rugby Union. He spent two years with the English Premiership side Saracens joining after the 2007 Rugby World Cup, joining another New Zealand player, Glen Jackson. In April 2009 he re-signed with the New Zealand Rugby Union until 2011. He played with South African side Western Province and then made a retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Maling
Thomas Simon Maling (born 3 June 1975) is a retired New Zealand rugby union footballer and former All Black. His usual playing position was at Lock (rugby union), lock. He played for most of his rugby career in New Zealand for the Otago Highlanders and the All Blacks from 1996 - 2004 before heading overseas to London to play part of one season at Harlequin F.C., Harlequins in 2004 before heading to Japan. He joined the Scarlets at the start of the 2008–09 European season, leaving Suntory Sungoliath in Japan, where he played for three years from 2005 to 2008. In mid-2009, at age 34, Maling hung up his boots and retired from rugby and returned to his native New Zealand to live. Early life Maling was born 3 June 1975 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He grew up in Cashmere, Christchurch and attended Christ's College, Christchurch, Christ's College where he excelled at both Rowing (sport), rowing and rugby union. Upon finishing school he moved to Dunedin to study at the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (sports)
In team sport, captain is a title given to a member of the team. The title is frequently honorary, but in some cases the captain may have significant responsibility for strategy and teamwork while the game is in progress on the field. In either case, it is a position that indicates honor and respect from one's teammates – recognition as a leader by one's peers. In association football and cricket, a captain is also known as a skipper. Various sports have differing roles and responsibilities for team captains. Depending on the sport, team captains may be given the responsibility of interacting with game officials regarding application and interpretation of the rules. In many team sports, the captains represent their respective teams when the match official does the coin toss at the beginning of the game. The team captain, in some sports, is selected by the team coach, who may consider factors ranging from playing ability to leadership to serving as a good moral example to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuben Thorne
Reuben David Thorne (born 2 January 1975) is a New Zealand rugby union player, and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. Now involved with Big Brother Big Sister and is the Christ College first xv coach. Professional career and the All Blacks Super 12 Playing as a flanker, Thorne first appeared in the Super 12 with the Canterbury Crusaders in 1998. He became captain in 2002, immediately leading the Crusaders to Super 12 victory in an unprecedented "perfect" season—13 wins from 13 games. In 2003 and 2004 the Crusaders were runners-up in the Super 12 under his leadership. Thorne was a rarity among All Blacks, especially captains, in that he never made an international appearance at any age-group level. He earned his first All Black cap in 1999, playing a single test against the Springboks before the 1999 Rugby Union World Cup. Taking over as captain from an injured Anton Oliver, he led the All Blacks throughout 2002 and 2003, apart from a brief tour of the UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie McCaw
Richard Hugh McCaw (born 31 December 1980) is a retired New Zealand professional rugby union player. He captain (sports), captained the New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, in 110 out of his 148 test matches, and won two Rugby World Cups. He has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award a joint record three times and was the List of rugby union Test caps leaders, most capped test rugby player of all time from August 2015 to October 2020. McCaw was awarded World Rugby player of the decade (2011–2020) in 2021. McCaw is also a winner of the New Zealand sportsman of the decade award. McCaw was the first All Black to reach 100 caps, and the first rugby union player to win 100 tests. He was the List of rugby union Test caps leaders, most-capped player in rugby union history with 148 caps, having overtaken Brian O'Driscoll's record in 2015 and losing the record to Alun Wyn Jones in 2020. McCaw has also equaled the record for most app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Robertson (rugby Union)
Scott Maurice Robertson (born 21 August 1974) is a New Zealand rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ... coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the All Blacks, the men's New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand national team. Nicknamed "Razor", he played as a Flanker (rugby union), flanker for Bay of Plenty Rugby Union, Bay of Plenty, USA Perpignan, Perpignan, Canterbury Rugby Football Union, Canterbury and the Crusaders (rugby union), Crusaders. He won 23 international caps for New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand between 1998 and 2002. He was the head coach of the New Zealand national under-20 rugby union team, New Zealand U20 team, the Canterbury Rugby Football Union, Canterbury ITM Cup team, and the Crusaders in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Marshall
Justin Warren Marshall (born 5 August 1973) is a New Zealand former rugby union player. He played 81 games for the New Zealand All Blacks between 1995 and 2005. Marshall played for the in the Super Rugby, Super 12 from 1996 to 2005, winning the competition five times. He subsequently moved to Europe and had spells playing for Leeds Tykes, the Ospreys (rugby union), Ospreys, Montpellier Hérault RC, Montpellier and Saracens F.C., Saracens. He is now a Sky Sports commentator in New Zealand for most All Blacks games and other provincial matches. Early life He was born in Gore, New Zealand, Gore on 5 August 1973 and educated at Gore High School, before settling in Christchurch where he played for the High School Old Boys RFC, High School Old Boys club. Playing career Marshall began his rugby union career with Southland Rugby, Southland and was then asked to join Christchurch by Canterbury coach Vance Stewart. It was whilst here that Marshall first made the break into the All Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
