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The body was renamed the International Rugby Board (IRB) in 1998, and took up its current name of World Rugby in November 2014. [8] In 2009, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to include rugby sevens in the 2016 Summer Olympics . [ 9 ]
The World Rugby Rankings is a ranking system for national teams in rugby union, managed by World Rugby, the sport's governing body. There are separate men's and women's rankings. The teams of World Rugby's member nations are ranked based on their game results, with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
The Arabian Gulf rugby union team combined various teams from Arab countries in the Persian Gulf and competed in World Cup qualification. The Arabian Gulf Rugby Union has now been dismantled and responsibility for the game devolved to each of the member nations, although the team may be revived in the future.
These are men's International Team records in international rugby, [1] updated at the conclusion of the November Internationals window each year. To view men's individual records, see International rugby union player records. To view records of the men's Rugby World Cup, see Records and statistics of the Rugby World Cup.
The question whether a player had been captured under regulation 8 has given rise to many rulings of the IRB/World Rugby. One example is the case of Jason Jones-Hughes. When Australian born Jones-Hughes, whose father was born in Wales, was named in the Wales squad for the 1999 Rugby World Cup, Rugby Australia lodged a complaint with the IRB.
The World Rugby Team of the Year is awarded by the World Rugby in the spring each year. From 2004 to 2007, the award was called the IRB International Team of the Year.In 2017 the New Zealand Black Ferns became the first women's team to win the award beating nominees England and the All Blacks.
The World Rugby Under 20 Championship (known as the IRB Junior World Championship until 2014) is an annual international rugby union competition. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, World Rugby, and is contested by 12 men's junior national teams with an under-20 age requirement.
First presented in 2001, [2] it was initially named the IRB International Player of the Year; from 2007 until 2014 it was the IRB Player of the Year and in 2014 it was titled World Rugby Player of the Year, before being given its current name in 2016. [2] The winner receives a trophy at an annual awards ceremony. [3]