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2021 Rugby World Cup Warm-up Matches
The 2021 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches were a series of rugby union international test matches played to prepare teams for the 2021 Rugby World Cup, which were held in New Zealand in October and November 2022. They involved the 12 teams qualified for the World Cup, with Spain also included. The 2022 Laurie O'Reilly Cup was contested as part of the fixtures. They were held at a variety of venues from 24 July to 24 September 2022. Matches 24 July Notes: * Rumandi Potgieter and Monica Mazibukwana (South Africa) made their international debuts. ---- 30 July 13 August 19 August 20 August Notes * Dannah O'Brien, Aoife Dalton, Natasja Behan, Méabh Deely, Taryn Schultzer and Leah Tarpey (Ireland) made their international debuts. ---- Notes: * Awhina Tangen-Wainohu and Tyla Nathan-Wong (New Zealand) and Bree-Anna Cheatham (Australia) made their international debuts. * With this win New Zealand retained the Laurie O'Reilly Cup 27 August Notes: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Rugby World Cup
The 2021 Rugby World Cup was the ninth staging of the women's Rugby World Cup, as organised by World Rugby. It was held from 8 October to 12 November 2022 in Auckland and Whangārei, New Zealand. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the first women's Rugby World Cup to be hosted by New Zealand, and by a country in the Southern Hemisphere. New Zealand were also the defending champions. The tournament introduced changes such as replacement of classification play-offs in the knockout stage with quarter-finals, and a longer scheduling window with at least five days between matches. It was also the first to not be marketed by World Rugby as the "Women's Rugby World Cup", due to a decision to market both the men's and women's tournaments under the "Rugby World Cup" title with no disambiguation beginning in 2021. Host selection On 14 November 2018, World Rugby announced that New Zealand would host the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masami Kawamura
The 2021 Rugby World Cup was an international rugby union tournament held in New Zealand from 8 October until 12 November 2022. Twelve national teams competed, and each brought a 32-player squad containing no regulated number of players per-position to the tournament. The tournament was administered by World Rugby, to whom each team submitted their finalised squad. The numbers of caps for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. Overview Below is a table listing all the head coaches and captains for each nation. Pool A Australia Australia named their final 32-player squad on 7 September 2022. New Zealand New Zealand named their final 32-player squad on 13 September 2022. Scotland Scotland named their final 32-player squad on 15 September 2022. 1On 17 October Choe Rollie left the squad through injury. No replacement was called up. Wales Wales named their final 32-player squad on 21 September 2022. 1On 12 October Alisha Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuka Sadaka
Yuka may refer to: * Yuka (music), an Afro-Cuban style of music * Yuka (mammoth), mammoth specimen found in Yakutia, Russia *Manshu Yuka Kogyo K.K. Ssuningkai, a Japanese-German pre-WWII industrial co-operation People * Yuka (name), a Japanese personal name * Yuka (singer) (born 1970), Japanese singer See also * Yuca, a plant species * Yucca (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misaki Suzuki
Misaki Suzuki (born 9 April 1992) is a Japanese rugby union player. She plays for Japan internationally and at club level for Tokyo Sankyu Phoenix. She has competed for Japan at the 2017 and 2021 Rugby World Cup's. Early career Suzuki was born in the Kanagawa Prefecture and started playing rugby at 13 in her first year of junior high school. She graduated from Funabashi Municipal High School in the Chiba Prefecture in 2011 and entered Kanto Gakuin University. After graduating from Kanto Gakuin University in 2015, she joined NTT Facilities. Rugby career 2010–13 Suzuki was selected to represent Japan in rugby sevens at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China where they finished in fifth place; She also represented Japan in fifteens that same year. In 2012, she became the captain of Japan's 15-a-side women's national team. She was named in Japan's sevens squad for the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow, Russia. 2017–18 Suzuki was part of the Japanese s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Lavemai
Makoto Lavemai (ラベマイまこと, born Makoto Ebuchi, July 2, 1997) is a Japanese women's rugby union player. She played for Yokogawa Musashino Artemi Stars . Biography Lavemai graduated from Fukuoka High School in 2016, and entered Aoyama Gakuin University. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University in 2020, then joined Toppan Printing. Her husband is also a rugby player, Sione Lavemai. Rugby career Lavemai competed for Japan at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland. In 2021, She played in Japan's autumn test match against Ireland in November. They were narrowly defeated 15–12. Lavemai joined the Brumbies for the 2022 Super W season, along with Sakura Fifteens teammate, Mana Furuta. She played against Ireland again in August 2022. Despite a four-point margin at half-time; Ireland managed to make a comeback to outscore Japan by 50 points. In September 2022, Lavemai started in Japan's historic match against the Black Ferns ahead of the World Cup. Japa ... [...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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saki Minami
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, '' The Watched Pot'', in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, ''The Rise of the Russian Empire'' (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, ''The Unbearable Bassington''; the episodic '' The Westminster Alice'' (a parliamentary parody of ''Alice in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nijiho Nagata
Nijiho Nagata ( 永田虹歩 born 6 December 2000) is a Japanese rugby union player, who plays hooker for the Japan women's national rugby union team. Career Nagata competed at the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. She also featured forJapan in the 2023 Asia Rugby Women's Championship. She played for International Budo University. In 2024, Nagata joined the Blues Women in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition as an injury cover for Esther Faiaoga-Tilo. She previously played for Auckland Storm in the Farah Palmer Cup The Farah Palmer Cup (formerly known as Women's Provincial Championship until 2016), is the highest level domestic women's rugby union competition in New Zealand and is named after the former Black Ferns captain, Farah Palmer. This contest is hel .... References External links Nijiho Nagata poses for a portrait during the Japan for the 2021 Rugby World Cup{{Japan 2021 RWC Squad 2000 births Japanese rugby union players Living people Japan women's i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wako Kitano
Wako, Wakō, Wakou, WAKO or W.A.K.O. can refer to: * Wako (retailer), a Japanese retailer whose best known store is in Ginza, Tokyo * Wakō, Saitama, a city in Japan * World Association of Kickboxing Organizations * WAKO (AM), 910 AM, a radio station near Lawrenceville, Illinois * WAKO-FM, 103.1 FM, a radio station near Lawrenceville, Illinois * Amos Wako, the attorney general of Kenya * Gabriel Zubeir Wako, archbishop of Khartoum, Sudan * Haruo Wakō was a member of the armed militant group the Japanese Red Army (JRA). He attended Keio University, but dropped out in 1970. Later he worked for a time as an assistant for Kōji Wakamatsu's ''Wakamatsu Productions'', a producer of leftist movies ..., a member of the Japanese Red Army * '' Wokou'' (Japanese pronunciation ''wakō''), pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to the 17th century See also * Waco, Texas {{Disambiguation, callsign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otoka Yoshimura
Otoka may refer to: * Otoka, Krupa na Uni, a village in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Otoka, Sarajevo, a neighbourhood of Novi Grad, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Otoka, Poland Otoka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łoniów, within Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Łoniów, south-west of Sandomierz, and south-east of the regio ..., a village in Gmina Łoniów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland See also * * Otok (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
