The full list of 2024 World Rugby Awards winners

PS: the amount stupidity from commentors supposedly South African is crazy witness!

how did he choke exactly winning the 7s series and the Olympics?

so basically you're not happy until SA gets everything? Like him or not Dupont joined a good team but by no means the favorite, and instantly made it win the 7s finals and Olympic gold. Who did you want instead? A SA player?

Who’s Du Pont?

Because I know an Antoine Dupont who won 2 out of the 3 biggest 7s competitions this year (and one tournament in LA), plus one medal on another tournament. 3 wins out of 4.

Did Dutoit play all international games and was outstanding all year long in 2019? No, he outshone everyone in the most important competition.

What position does he play? Or her, sorry?

They have history. I remember Steve Hansen not being coach of the year when he won the 2015 WC.

Well said. Thanks. Rassie is a rugby genius and geniuses often get ignored. "From artists and musicians to scientists and inventors, many geniuses have been overlooked and undervalued in their time, only to be celebrated posthumously. It is a sad reality that many geniuses are often misunderstood, ridiculed, or even ostracised by the very society that should be nurturing and supporting them." (Thomas Oppong).

But someone like Rassie will hopefully ignore the second-rate poephols like Beaumont (who I reckon is still peed off that his 1980 Lions side got comprehensively thrashed by the Boks among other things South African) and just carry on being the genius he is for both SA rugby and rugby union in general. I just hope that after he's helped the Boks win a hattrick of RWCs in 2027 that he's made WR chairman to carry on his brilliant work.

There hasn't really been anyone better has their. Marcus played just as well but for only half as many games. France used two and SA 3+, I take it Finn Russell was injured during 6N as surely he would normally cruze in.

I'm more surprised there were no better fullbacks.

There hasn't been a single definitive 10 this year, so quite frankly idc who won it. Hot and cold performances all round.

Someone at IRB is having a good laugh at that 1

Absolutely. Its in print. Like Sextons book.

That's a shame. He's a really good coach and won everything this year

I don't know about that. The French 7s team have been pretty hopeless historically and they came from nowhere to win the Gold Medal at the Olympics.

For Rassie this is probably the least pressure he has ever felt. Coming off the back of back to back world cups. I think SA would had to have gone unbeaten for Rassie to be a serious contender.

I'm no Bok supporter but yes. For' World Rugby coach of the year winner' to go to Jerome Daret (France) it simply means it a typo ie the award meant to read World Rugby CHOKING coach of the year winner'.

France choked AGAIN... that's on the coach. AND in their RWC.

AND on their turf.

Seriously. A decent coach prevents that.

Yes unbelievable, what a joke, Rassie was/is the coach of the century!

Yep not even France's best player at the olympics. Should mean more 15s players try it though, that's a positive for giving him the award.

So Dupont will never be the G O A T

because he never wins titles, but when he wins titles he is not the POTY...I am strugling whith this logic...

In 4 tournaments and no experience at 7s, he has been the catalyst of the french team 7s who led it to 3 major titles in a few months.

He played 4 tournaments, won 3, led his country to the first win in 19 years, with one being the final tournament that crowns the best team. And the Olympic Gold, scoring in the final.

Biggest competitions, most decisive player, winning when it matters.

Other 15s male players didn’t fare that well before.

and Ox???? You aren't serious are you