World Rugby Hall of Fame





The World Rugby Hall of Fame (formerly the IRB Hall of Fame) recognises special achievement and contribution to the sport of rugby union. The World Rugby Hall of Fame covers players, coaches, administrators, match officials, institutions and other individuals.[1] The Hall of Fame recognises the history and important contributions to the game, through one or more induction ceremonies that have been held annually except in 2010. The permanent physical home of the Hall of Fame has been based at the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum in Rugby, Warwickshire since November 2016.[2]




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Inductees


    • 2.1 2006 Inductees


    • 2.2 2007 Inductees


    • 2.3 2008 Inductees


    • 2.4 2009 Inductees


    • 2.5 2010 Inductees


    • 2.6 2011 Inductees


    • 2.7 2012 Inductees


    • 2.8 2013 Inductees


    • 2.9 2014 Inductees


    • 2.10 2015 Inductees


    • 2.11 2016 Inductees


    • 2.12 2017 Inductees


    • 2.13 2018 Inductees




  • 3 See also


  • 4 Footnotes


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





History


The Hall of Fame was introduced by the International Rugby Board (as World Rugby was then known) during the 2006 IRB Awards ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland. The inaugural inductees were William Webb Ellis, who apocryphally caught the ball during a football game and ran with it, and Rugby School, which has left a huge legacy with the game in a number of ways.[3]


The second induction to the Hall of Fame took place in Paris on 21 October 2007, the night after the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final.[4] The next induction was in London on 23 November 2008.[5]


The third induction, in which nine figures entered the Hall, was held on 27 October 2009 at Rugby School. The voting process for the class of 2009 was geared toward the history of British and Irish Lions tours to South Africa, the most recent of which took place in that year; all of the candidates were either Lions or Springboks.[6]


For 2011, induction ceremonies were held at various locations around the world,[7][8] with the year's final ceremony taking place as part of the 2011 IRB Awards on 24 October in Auckland, the day after the Rugby World Cup Final in that city.[9] The inductions at the Auckland ceremony, according to the IRB, were "under the theme of Rugby World Cup founders, visionaries and iconic figures,"[9] and were made in three groups—first for the founders of the RWC, then all World Cup-winning captains and coaches through the 2007 World Cup (minus John Eales, inducted in 2007), and finally other iconic players of the World Cup.[10]


The pattern begun in 2011 was repeated in 2012, with six induction ceremonies being held in six different countries. As in the two previous induction cycles, the 2012 inductions had an overriding theme; "Rugby - A Global Game". According to the IRB, it "celebrates Rugby’s expansion to become a global sport played by millions of men and women worldwide."[11]


On 31 July 2014, the IRB announced that its Hall would merge with the separate International Rugby Hall of Fame later in 2014. The merger will see the 37 members of the International Hall who had not already been honoured by the IRB formally enter the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014 and 2015.[12] The 2014 class of inductees also included six women.


On 19 November the IRB rebranded as World Rugby, and the Hall of Fame became known as the World Rugby Hall Of Fame.



Inductees



2006 Inductees















Nation
Inductee

 England

William Webb Ellis

 England

Rugby School


2007 Inductees



























Nation
Inductee

 South Africa

Danie Craven

 France

Pierre de Coubertin

 Australia

John Eales

 Wales

Gareth Edwards

 New Zealand

Wilson Whineray


2008 Inductees



































Nation
Inductee

 New Zealand

1888–89 New Zealand Native football team

 Scotland

Ned Haig

 Ireland

Jack Kyle

 Scotland

Melrose Rugby Football Club

 Argentina

Hugo Porta

 France

Philippe Sella

 New Zealand

Joe Warbrick


2009 Inductees











































Nation
Inductee

 South Africa

Fairy Heatlie

 Scotland

Bill Maclagan

 Ireland

Willie John McBride

 Scotland

Ian McGeechan

 Ireland

Syd Millar

 Wales

Cliff Morgan

 Ireland

Tony O'Reilly

 South Africa

Bennie Osler

 South Africa

Frik du Preez


2010 Inductees



























































Nation
Inductee

 United Kingdom

Barbarian Football Club

 France

Serge Blanco

 France

André Boniface

 France

Guy Boniface

 Wales

Cardiff Rugby Football Club

 England

William Percy Carpmael

 New Zealand

Dave Gallaher

 Ireland

Mike Gibson

 Wales

Frank Hancock

 France

Lucien Mias

 France

Jean Prat

 England

Alan Rotherham

 England

Harry Vassall


2011 Inductees



















































































Nation
Inductee

 South Africa

Kitch Christie

 Australia

Bob Dwyer

 Australia

Nick Farr-Jones

 England

Martin Johnson

 England

John Kendall-Carpenter

 New Zealand

David Kirk

 Samoa

Brian Lima

 New Zealand

Richard Littlejohn

 New Zealand

Brian Lochore

 New Zealand

Jonah Lomu

 Australia

Rod Macqueen

 South Africa

François Pienaar

 Argentina

Agustín Pichot

 Canada

Gareth Rees

 Australia

Nicholas Shehadie

 South Africa

John Smit

 Australia

Roger Vanderfield

 South Africa

Jake White

 England

Clive Woodward


2012 Inductees











































Nation
Inductee

 United States

1920 United States Olympic rugby team

 Romania

1924 Romania Olympic rugby team

 United States

1924 United States Olympic rugby team

 Chile

Donald Campbell

 Chile

Ian Campbell

 Japan

Yoshihiro Sakata

 New Zealand

Gordon Tietjens

 Zimbabwe

Kennedy Tsimba

 Zimbabwe

Richard Tsimba


2013 Inductees



































































Nation
Inductee

 Scotland

David Bedell-Sivright

 Australia

David Campese

 Australia

Ken Catchpole

 Ireland

Ronnie Dawson

 Australia

Mark Ella

 Australia

George Gregan

 England

Alfred St. George Hamersley

 Scotland

Gavin Hastings

 Soviet Union

Vladimir Ilyushin

 Australia

Thomas Lawton, Snr

 Wales

Jack Matthews

 United Kingdom

Robert Seddon and the 1888 British Lions

 Fiji

Waisale Serevi

 Australia

John Thornett

 Wales

Bleddyn Williams


2014 Inductees


The 2014 class of inductees included six women.















































































































Nation
Inductee

 New Zealand

Fred Allen

 New Zealand

Don Clarke

 New Zealand

Grant Fox

 New Zealand

Sean Fitzpatrick

 New Zealand

Michael Jones

 New Zealand

Ian Kirkpatrick

 New Zealand

John Kirwan

 New Zealand

Terry McLean

 New Zealand

Colin Meads

 New Zealand

Graham Mourie

 New Zealand

George Nepia

 France

Nathalie Amiel[n 1]

 England

Gill Burns[n 1]

 United States

Patty Jervey[n 1]

 England

Carol Isherwood[n 1]

 New Zealand

Anna Richards[n 1]

 New Zealand

Farah Palmer[n 1]

 Wales

Keith Rowlands

 Scotland

Jim Greenwood

 Wales

J.P.R. Williams

 Australia

Michael Lynagh

 France

Jo Maso

 Ireland

Keith Wood

 Wales

Ieuan Evans

 England

Jason Leonard

 England

Bill Beaumont


2015 Inductees















































































































Nation
Inductee

 Australia

Tim Horan

 Australia

Tom Richards

 England

Edgar Mobbs

 England

Ronald Poulton-Palmer

 England

Wavell Wakefield

 France

Jean-Pierre Rives

 France

Marcel Communeau

 Ireland

Basil Maclear

 Ireland

Fergus Slattery

 Ireland

Tom Kiernan

 Scotland

Andy Irvine

 Scotland

Bill McLaren

 Scotland

Gordon Brown

 South Africa

Danie Gerber

 South Africa

Hennie Muller

 South Africa

Joost van der Westhuizen

 South Africa

Morne du Plessis

 South Africa

Naas Botha

 South Africa

Nelson Mandela

 Wales

Barry John

 Wales

Carwyn James

 Wales

Gerald Davies

 Wales

Gwyn Nicholls

 Wales

Mervyn Davies

 Wales

Phil Bennett

 Wales

Johnny Williams


2016 Inductees























































Nation
Inductee

 Australia and
 United States

Daniel Carroll

 Canada

Heather Moyse[n 1]

 England

Maggie Alphonsi[n 1]

 England

Lawrence Dallaglio

 England

Jeremy Guscott

 England

Jonny Wilkinson

 Ireland

Brian O'Driscoll

 Japan

Daisuke Ohata

 Scotland

G.P.S. Macpherson

 Wales

John Dawes

 Wales

Arthur Gould

 Wales

Shane Williams


2017 Inductees


There were five names added to the Hall of Fame in 2017.[13]



























Nation
Inductee

 Argentina

Felipe Contepomi

 Canada

Al Charron

 England

Rob Andrew

 France

Fabien Pelous

 United States

Phaidra Knight[n 1]


2018 Inductees


There were five names added to the Hall of Fame in 2018.[14]



























Nation
Inductee

 Australia

Stephen Larkham

 France

Pierre Villepreux

 Ireland

Ronan O'Gara

 New Zealand

Bryan Williams

 Wales

Liza Burgess[n 1]


See also




  • International Rugby Hall of Fame – merged into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014 and 2015


  • World Rugby Museum Wall of Fame – a celebration of the best international players to have played at Twickenham



Footnotes





  1. ^ abcdefghij This inductee is a woman.




References





  1. ^ IRB Hall of Fame: Objective irb.com


  2. ^ "World Rugby Hall of Fame: Jonny Wilkinson attends launch". BBC News Coventry and Warwickshire. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Two inaugural inductees in IRB Hall of Fame irb.com


  4. ^ Rugby News Service (21 October 2007). "Habana named IRB Player of the Year". International Rugby Board. Retrieved 21 October 2007.


  5. ^ "IRB Hall of Fame Welcomes Five Inductees". International Rugby Board. 23 November 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2008.


  6. ^ "Nine inductees to join IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 23 October 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2009.


  7. ^ "Five French legends into IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.


  8. ^ "Hancock and Cardiff inducted to Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.


  9. ^ ab "Stars set for glittering finale at IRB Awards" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.


  10. ^ "RWC legends inducted into IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.


  11. ^ "Chilean Rugby greats added to IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 2012-05-26. Retrieved 12 June 2012.


  12. ^ "Rugby greats to join definitive Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.


  13. ^ Pengelly, Martin (4 November 2017). "Meet Phaidra Knight: free radical flanker in World". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2018.


  14. ^ "Ronan O'Gara: Former Ireland and Munster fly-half earns Hall of Fame honour". British Broadcasting Corporation. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.




External links



  • World Rugby Hall of Fame

  • 2009 list of 19th century nominees

  • 2009 list of 20th century nominees

  • 2009 list of 21st century nominees

  • 2008 list of 19th century nominees

  • 2008 list of 20th century nominees

  • 2008 list of 21st century nominees

  • 2007 list of 19th century nominees

  • 2007 list of 20th century nominees

  • 2007 list of 21st century nominees




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