Quiz! Name every men’s world player of the year – Rugby World

Since 2001, World Rugby (previously the Worldwide Rugby Board or IRB) have named a males’s world participant of the yr 21 occasions – taking 2020 off because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

However are you able to title each single winner of the award? Take our males’s world participant of the yr quiz under, and see should you can beat the clock.

You’ve three minutes and 15 seconds to get all of the solutions down. Prepared, regular, go…



Choosing the boys’s world participant of the yr

Do you know that there was a panel of ten figures who chosen all the World Rugby (then IRB) awards again in 2001?

The judging panel again then was: Gerald Davies (Chairman of Judges, Wales), Paul Ackford (England), Sean Fitzpatrick (New Zealand), Simon Poidevin (Australia), Hugo Porta (Argentina), Gareth Rees (Canada), Philippe Sella (France), Fergus Slattery (Eire), David Sole (Scotland), Chester Williams (South Africa).

The newest males’s participant of the yr stated upon successful the award: stated: “I’ve been extremely lucky to have nice team-mates and coaches which have actually pushed me on, in addition to my spouse and my household supported me an enormous quantity. I’m fortunate to have some very skilled, high-quality gamers and particularly in my place each in Eire and in [removed]so I’ve all the time felt I’ve wanted to be enjoying at my greatest the entire time or I wouldn’t be enjoying, in order that’s definitely pushed me on.”

However on choosing them, World Rugby Chairman Sir Invoice Beaumont stated: “On a particular evening, there was a lot to have fun a couple of exceptional 2022, however for me it was the ability of persona that has stood out this yr.”

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