2024 Rugby Championship
The 2024 Rugby Championship was the thirteenth edition of the annual Southern Hemisphere rugby union The Rugby Championship, competition, involving Argentina national rugby union team, Argentina, Australia national rugby union team, Australia, New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand and South Africa national rugby union team, South Africa. New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand was the defending champion. On 28 September, South Africa won the championship for the first time since 2019 Rugby Championship, 2019 after a 48-7 win against Argentina. Table Fixtures Round 1 Notes: * Carlo Tizzano and Luke Reimer (both Australia) made their international debuts. * RG Snyman was initially named at lock in the South Africa team, but was forced to withdraw due to injury. He was replaced by Pieter-Steph du Toit, with Ben-Jason Dixon replacing du Toit at blindside flanker and Salmaan Moerat taking Dixon's place among the substitutes. * South Africa retained the Mand ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Caleb Clarke (rugby Union)
Caleb Daniel Clarke (born 29 March 1999) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for the in the Super Rugby competition. His position of choice is wing. Clarke made his international debut for New Zealand in 2020 and has since played 12 tests. Early life Clarke attended Mount Albert Grammar School and was first selected for the school's First XV aged 14, where he played until 2016. Playing career Early career Clarke was selected for the All Blacks Sevens in 2018, following his first season for Auckland in the Mitre 10 Cup. Good performances for Auckland also led to Clarke's selection for the New Zealand U20's, for 2017 and 2018. In 2019, his second season of Super Rugby, Clarke also became a regular starter for the Blues, under new Head Coach, Leon MacDonald. 2020 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Clarke, as well as his teammates from the New Zealand Rugby Sevens team, were released to play for their provinces and Super Rugby clubs. Clarke was in career-best for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Australia National Rugby Union Team
The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team. Australia have competed in all nine Rugby World Cups, winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice. Australia beat England at Twickenham in the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup and won again in 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents in the final were France. The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations), along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations. More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kurt-Lee Arendse
Kurt-Lee Arendse (born 17 June 1996) is a South African professional rugby player for the South Africa national team, where his regular position is wing or fullback, and a rugby union player for the Bulls in the United Rugby Championship Career He attended Paulus Joubert Secondary School in Paarl, where he earned a selection into the ' sevens team that competed at the 2014 SARU Under-18 Sevens competition. He progressed through the youth ranks in rugby union, playing in several national junior competitions — he played for in the 2015 Under-19 Provincial Championship, for in the 2016 Under-20 Provincial Championship and for in the 2017 Under-21 Provincial Championship. He was named as the MVP at the 2018 Varsity Cup Sevens tournament, and joined the South African Rugby Sevens Academy in December 2018. After playing for in the 2019 Varsity Cup, Arendse was named in the Blitzboks squad for the Vancouver Sevens, and he made his debut in their 31–12 Cup semi-final victo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pieter-Steph Du Toit
Pieter Stephanus du Toit (born 20 August 1992) is a South African professional rugby union player. Du Toit plays as a lock or a flanker for the South Africa national team and the in Japan Rugby League One. After winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup with South Africa, he was awarded the 2019 World Rugby Player of the Year. School and youth career Du Toit went to school at Hoërskool Swartland where he played mostly in the back row. Du Toit was a member of the South Africa Under 20 team that won the 2012 IRB Junior World Championship. Senior career In July 2013, Du Toit signed a two-year contract extension with the . The Sharks announced his departure in October 2015. He made his South Africa Test debut versus Wales in Cardiff on 9 November 2013 at age 21. Du Toit has since become a regular for the Springboks and was a part of the South African team for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Du Toit came off the bench in the quarter-final, when South Africa beat Wales 23–19 at Twickenham ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Siya Kolisi
Siyamthanda Kolisi (born 16 June 1991) is a South African professional rugby union player who currently captains the South Africa national team and also the Cell C Sharks. He plays club rugby for the in the Currie Cup. He generally plays as a flanker and a loose forward. In 2018, Kolisi was appointed captain of the Springboks, becoming the first black man to hold the position, and eventually leading the South African Rugby team to victory in the 2019 Rugby World Cup Final against England. In December 2019, Kolisi was named in ''New African'' magazine's list of 100 Most Influential Africans. Early life Kolisi grew up in Zwide, Ibhayi, a township outside of Port Elizabeth. Kolisi's mother, Phakama, was 17 when Siya was born and his father, Fezakele, was in his final year of school. Kolisi's mother died when he was 15, leaving his late grandmother, Nolulamile, to raise him. At the age of 12, he impressed scouts at a youth tournament in Mossel Bay and was offered a scholarship at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tom Lynagh
Tom Lynagh (born 14 April 2003) is an Australian rugby union player, currently playing for the . His preferred position is fly-half. Early life Lynagh is the son of Australian international Michael Lynagh, and was born in Montebelluna, near Treviso, Italy. He is qualified to represent Australia, England or Italy internationally. His brother Louis Lynagh is also a professional rugby player who plays for Harlequins and the Italy national team. Lynagh attended Epsom College in Surrey. Professional career Club Lynagh was originally a member of the Harlequins academy alongside his brother Louis. He returned to Australia in 2021, signing for the Queensland Reds. He was first announced in a Super Rugby squad in 2022, when he was announced in the Reds squad for the 2022 season, although he didn't make an appearance, before again being announced in the squad for 2023. He made his debut in Round 1 of the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season against the . Country He was named in the Junior W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hunter Paisami
Hunter Paisami (born 10 April 1998) is a Samoa-born Australian rugby union player who plays for the in the Super Rugby competition. His position of choice is centre. Paisami joined the ahead of the 2020 Super Rugby season The 2020 Super Rugby season was the 25th season of Super Rugby, an international men's rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR involving teams from Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. It is the third tournament in its ..., and made his debut for Australia at the end of the 2020 season. Super Rugby statistics References External links Hunter Paisami , Rugby Database Profile Australian rugby union players Australian sportspeople of Samoan descent 1998 births Living people Australia international rugby union players Rugby union centres Melbourne Rebels players Melbourne Rising players Brisbane City (rugby union) players Queensland Reds players Samoan emigrants Immigrants to New Zealand Immigrants to Austr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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UTC+10
UTC+10:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +10:00. This time is used in: As standard time (year-round) ''Principal cities: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Port Moresby, Dededo, Saipan'' North Asia *Russia – Vladivostok Time **Far Eastern Federal District ***Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, Sakha Republic, Oymyakonsky, Ust-Yansky, Verkhoyansky and districts of the Sakha Republic (central part; east of 140 degrees longitude and including the Abyysky, Allaikhovsky, Momsky, Nizhnekolymsky, and Srednekolymsky districts) Oceania Pacific Ocean Australasia *Australia – Eastern Standard Time (AEST) **Queensland =Micronesia= *Federated States of Micronesia ** Chuuk **Yap *United States - Chamorro Time Zone **Guam **Northern Mariana Islands Melanesia *Papua New Guinea **All of the country except Autonomous Region of Bougainville ***Highlands Region **** Chimbu ****Eastern Highlands **** Enga ****Hela **** Jiwaka **** S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Time In Australia
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00). Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones. Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory use Eastern Standard Time. Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2019 Rugby Championship
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Sky Group
Sky Group Limited is a British media and telecommunications conglomerate, which is a division of Comcast, and headquartered in London. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Sky is Europe's largest media company and pay-TV broadcaster by revenue (), with 23 million subscribers and more than 31,000 employees as of 2019. The company is primarily involved in satellite television, producing and broadcasting. The current CEO is Dana Strong. Initially formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB became the UK's largest digital pay television company. In 2014, after completing the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, the merged company changed its name to Sky plc. Prior to November 2018, Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox owned a 39.14% controlling stake in the company; on 9 December 2016, following a previous attempt under News Corporation that was affected ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, and has sometimes played a large role inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the Premier League to break away from the Football League in 1992. Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League, Football, Cricket, Golf, F1, Action and Arena are available as a premium package on top of the basic Sky package. These services are also available as premium channels on nearly every satellite, cable and IPTV broadcasting system in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Racing and Sky Sports Mix are all provided as part of basic packages. The Sky Sports network is managed by Jonathan Licht. Histo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |