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[3] [4] According to Guinness World Records he executed the longest drop goal in rugby union to date. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Brand's 55 test career points for the Springboks set a 27-year record (1938–65), which was eventually surpassed by Keith Oxlee .
This is a list of the leading drop goal scorers in rugby union test matches, with a minimum of ten test drop goals. Test caps are awarded by a player's national union, regardless of whether the opposition recognise it as such.
A drop goal, field goal, [1] or dropped goal is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league and also, rarely, in American football and Canadian football. A drop goal is scored by drop kicking the ball (dropping the ball and then kicking it as it rises from the first bounce) over the crossbar and between the posts of the goal posts .
England won the Rugby World Cup in 2003 (PA) It should have been a night of celebration. ... It is more than two decades since Jonny Wilkinson’s famous final-winning drop goal (AFP/Getty Images) ...
Most drop goals by a team in a single match [31] Drop goals Team Opponent Score Date 5 South Africa England: 44–21: 24 October 1999 3 Fiji Romania: 15–17: 12 October 1991 England France: 24–7: 16 November 2003 Argentina Ireland: 30–15: 30 September 2007 Namibia Fiji: 25–49: 10 September 2011 England Argentina: 27–10: 9 September 2023
He holds the national record of his country with 15 drop goals. He played four times at the Five Nations, in 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1988, being a member of the winning team the last time, ex-aequo with Wales. On 2 February 1985, he scored a record of 3 drop goals against England in a 9–9 draw, in a game for the 1985 Five Nations Championship.
Thorburn was a prolific long-distance goal kicker. He holds the record for the longest successful kick in an international test match (although not the longest in Rugby Union as a whole). He gained the record during the 1986 Five Nations Championship at Cardiff Arms Park with a penalty kick measuring exactly 70 yards 8 and a half inches (64.2m ...
Most drop goals by a player in a year Drop goals Player Position International team(s) Year Matches Avg. DG (per game) Ref; 14 Jonny Wilkinson: Fly-half England: 2003 14 1.00 [165] 9 Dan Parks: Fly-half Scotland: 2010 9 1.00 [166] 6 Naas Botha: Fly-half South Africa: 1980 9 0.75 [167] Jannie de Beer: Fly-half South Africa: 1999 6 1.00 [168 ...