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He also became the first England player to have scored four tries in a Six Nations, Five Nations, or Home Nations match since Ronald Poulton-Palmer scored four against France in 1914. His six tries in the tournament equalled the single-season record in the Six Nations era, shared by Will Greenwood of England in 2001 and Shane Williams of Wales ...
The 2011 Rugby World Cup, was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board (IRB) selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005.
2010 Six Nations Championship: 94 26 February 2011 Twickenham Stadium, London 17–9 England: 2011 Six Nations Championship: 95 8 October 2011 Eden Park, Auckland (New Zealand) 19–12 France: 2011 Rugby World Cup: 96 11 March 2012 Stade de France, Saint-Denis 22–24 England: 2012 Six Nations Championship: 97 23 February 2013 Twickenham ...
The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition established in 1987. It is contested by the men's national teams of the member unions of the sport's governing body, World Rugby, and takes place every four years. The winners of the first final were New Zealand, who beat France. South Africa never competed in the first two world ...
This was the final edition of the tournament under the "Tri Nations" name; with the 2012 entry of Argentina, the competition was renamed as The Rugby Championship. 9 September–23 October: 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. The tournament was won by New Zealand's All Blacks defeating France in the final by a score of 8–7.
Argentina scrap their way to Rugby World Cup semi-finals as Wales come up short 18:14 , Mike Jones Louis Rees-Zammit leapt for the corner, and came down with an anguished cry.
The knockout stage of the 2011 Rugby World Cup began on 8 October with a quarter-final between Ireland and Wales and concluded on 23 October with the final at Eden Park in Auckland. New Zealand were the first team to qualify for the knockout stage, when they beat France 37–17 in their penultimate Pool A game.
Four nations have reached a Rugby World Cup Final having previously lost a game in that tournament: England in 1991 and 2007, South Africa in 2019 and 2023, New Zealand in 2023 and France in 2011, the latter being the only team to reach the final having lost two games. The 2023 final is the only one with both teams having previously lost a game ...