Lia Pineiro, Clara Piquero and Claudia Peña Hidalgo all crossed the whitewash as Spain beat the Netherlands 22-5 in the penultimate match of the Rugby Europe Women’s Championship 2024, while Andorra made an impressive entrance to test rugby.

2020年11月26日 · There are some who enter the international arena and become mainstays in the first team for years on end, taking up iconic positions in the squad, amongst the fans and rugby as a sport. Here are some of those select few in …

Former players in Wales can now access a new service that provides the latest information on brain health and an assessment of their current brain health status, free of charge. The service is delivered in a partnership with World Rugby and The Welsh Rugby Players’ Association (WRPA)

2022年4月12日 · These new best-practice guidelines focus on the intensity and frequency of contact training to which professional rugby players should be exposed and have been shaped by consultation with players and coaches as well as leading medical, conditioning and …

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On average the elite professional rugby player will participate in about 17 matches per year and owing to substitutions and replacements will only complete two-thirds of total game time. Other match participation statistics confirm that 20% of players are involved in 25 matches or more and 5% appear in 30 matches or more (2) .

2023年12月13日 · Portugal rivalled Fiji as the neutral’s favourite team at Men’s Rugby World Cup 2023 with their thrilling band of rugby wowing fans in France and those back home watching in front of their TVs.

2021年2月18日 · Out of the current crop of players, Alun Wyn Jones, the world’s most-capped player, and Johnny Sexton, the respective captains in the Six Nations 2021 opening round match between Wales and Ireland have a combined age of 70.

Coaches should be able to design and implement a simple resistance training programme to physically develop their players. The resistance training programme below is an example of a typical programme for size (hypertrophy) which is a good place to start as it will lay the foundation to progress into maximal strength and power training.

Answering these questions can guide the coach in understanding which physical characteristics will be beneficial to a rugby player. In the next few sections, the physical profile of rugby players will be considered, and some key physical characteristics and capacities will be identified.