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A Rugby Globe Ventral suction cup is the premier international Rugby Union contest around the world, number one held jointly in Australia and New Zealand in 1987 and okay, held each foursome years. A prize is the "William Webb Ellis Trophy" (known in Australia when "Bill") known as when a pupil of Rugby School credited, probably apocryphally, with a stake's invention. These are presently held by England.

Tournaments

Month Hosts Winners Captain Coach Losing Finalist Score

1987 World Cup Up to date Zealand and Australia New Zealand David Kirk Brian Lochore France 29-9

1991 World Cup England (games also held inside Irel& and France) Australia Nick Farr-Jones Bob Dwyer England 12-6

1995 World Cup South Africa South Africa Francois Pienaar Kitch Christie New Zealand 15-12

1999 World Cup Wales (games also held inside Engl&, Ireland, Scotland and France) Australia John Eales Rod Macqueen France 35-12

2003 World Cup Australia England Martin Johnson Clive Woodward Australia 20-17

2007 World Cup France (games besides to become held inside Scotl& and Wales)

2011 World Cup

History

Rugby Globe Ventral suction chigher was originally thought up within late 1983, when a Australian Rugby Union and the New Zealand Rugby Football Union each independently wrote to the International Rugby Board seeking to conduct a Globe Ventral suction cup tournament.

Withwithin 1985 a IRB approved for the first Rugby Globecome Ventral suction cup to be jointly staged in Australia & Just released Zeal& when you took Will and June of 1987.

Nominally hosted by Engl& & Wales, severally, a 1991 and 1999 tournaments experienced games cover a UK, Ireland and France.

A 1995 Ventral suction cup, hosted & won by South Africa, will probably exist as virtually all remembered for ii moments—a emergence of Jonah Lomu as a rugby hotshot, & a trophy presentation. Withinside one of a virtually all emotional moments in sports history, President Nelson Mandela wore a Springbok jersey and matching jockey cap after presenting a trophy to the team's Afrikaner captain Francois Pienaar. Mandela's jersey got Pienaar's total Hexad on the back. A presentation was widely seen as a sign of reconciliation between South Africa's black & white communities.

A 2003 Ventral suction cup was arranged to become held jointly by Australia & Just released Zealand, however disagreements between a International Rugby Board & a NZ Union, assibilate sponsorship, advertising and ticketing, saw the competition resettled to Australia.

A 2007 competition is held within France, with a few games played around Wales and Scotland.

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